Aravind Srinivas

Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?

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Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?

When Aravind Srinivas was accepted at the University of California, Berkeley, to do a PhD, his mother was disappointed. Like many Indian parents, she wanted him to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But things worked out after all; on the west coast he interned at OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, both of which became … Read more

‘You don’t need to destroy Google. All you need to destroy is their monopoly.’

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‘You don't need to destroy Google. All you need to destroy is their monopoly.'

Srinivas believes Google will begin losing significant high-value traffic, and Google’s size and shareholder expectations will hamper its ability to innovate efficiently in the realm of search engine technology. With over 1 million users in India, accounting for 10% of its global user base, Perplexity is also planning to open an office in India soon, … Read more