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Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas — Building an AI-First Answer Engine
USA / IndiaJun 14, 2024 1h 12m
Guest:Aravind Srinivas— Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity
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Aravind Srinivas on rebuilding search around LLMs, hiring, retrieval quality, and how Perplexity competes with Google and OpenAI.
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The founder of Perplexity explains how his team is building a smarter search engine that reads the web for you and gives you an answer with sources.
Top 5 takeaways
- 1Answer quality is a retrieval problem as much as a model problem.
- 2Small, focused product teams beat large ones on AI velocity.
- 3Latency and freshness are underrated moats for AI search.
- 4Grounded citations are essential to earn user trust.
- 5Distribution — mobile, browser, enterprise — will decide the winner.
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