Aravind Srinivas
Co-founder and CEO, Perplexity
Former DeepMind and OpenAI researcher who co-founded Perplexity, an answer engine that cites its sources instead of returning a list of links.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues an answer engine should show its sources so users can verify claims, rather than asking for blind trust.
- Frames search as the field where hallucination matters most, because people act on the answer immediately.
- Says accuracy and speed, not model size, decide whether people keep using an AI product.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded Perplexity in 2022 after research roles at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Google.
- Perplexity popularized cited, conversational search and now serves hundreds of millions of queries a month.
- PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, with published work on self-supervised and generative models.
Papers & key writings
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