Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434

Listen to this guy! I'm 40, married, with three children and decided to go back to school only a couple years ago. I graduate next spring but it has generally been a very stressful and difficult uphill climb. Don't wait until you're older to pursue your dreams. Those if you in your 20s and are reading this, pursue your dreams while you are young, have no responsibilities (mortgage, family, etc.), and while your energy is at its peak. Don't procrastinate, don't put it off, and never prioritize pleasure over purpose. Also, like he said, your friends will make or break you. Be careful who you run with- don't let others discourage you or talk you out of something you really want to do. Arvind is an inspiration to us all!

this dude is extremely smart. One of the best AI related conversation with techicalities and not just whinning about safety

now this is a podcast guest. Stellar.

Very grounded, very wise, very intelligent, quite technical, lots of GK and minimum self promotion... Not many guest boast that sort of combination, even the big hitters! Wish Aravind loads of luck!

Feels good to see an Indian not just becoming CEO but also being a founder of a disruptive tech company

The way Aravind thinks is truly incredible, one of the best I've seen on the Lex Fridman Podcast. Definitely one of the great leading thinkers of AI.

Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript 0:00 - Introduction & sponsor mentions: - Cloaked: https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off - ShipStation: https://shipstation.com/lex and use code LEX to get 60-day free trial - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - LMNT: https://drinkLMNT.com/lex to get free sample pack - Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get $1 per month trial - BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off 1:53 - How Perplexity works 9:50 - How Google works 32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin 46:52 - Jeff Bezos 50:20 - Elon Musk 52:38 - Jensen Huang 55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg 57:23 - Yann LeCun 1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI 1:20:07 - Curiosity 1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question 1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story 1:56:27 - RAG 2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs 2:21:17 - Advice for startups 2:33:54 - Future of search 2:51:31 - Future of AI

I just learned of Perplexity from this. This is brilliant. Thank you both /all.

Being an initial user of Quora, I feel like they could have gotten here way before Perplexity, but didn't. Aravind's vision seems very aligned with what Quora back in the day was like without an AI, you search and it would give you a summary and the top n relevant answers based on statistical ranking of an answer by other humans. It also had related questions which were asked.

Lex fridman talking to technologists is why I started listening to the podcast