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Anthropic will die within 12 months if complacent on Claude Code
“If Anthropic thinks cloud code is already a win, In six or 12 months from now, they won't even be around.”
AI agents will generate more revenue than Google or Meta ads
“These products are not going to be used by you know, a hundred million people. But they will generate revenue that's going to be higher than the advertising revenue of Google or Meta. It's going to happen.”
Standalone AI model builders and token resellers have no viable business
“The output tokens, if you're literally just a reseller of model tokens, you have no business. Because the model will get commoditized. So even if you're a model builder, you don't have a business.”
Micron might surpass Meta in valuation within 12 months
“It might not be inconceivable that Micron, the supplier of HPMs, might be more valuable than Meta in the next six to 12 months.”
Advertising will fail to take off in AI chat interfaces
“So I, I'm bearish on advertising to really take off in the chat interface. I, I'm happy to be proven wrong there, but I'm bearish on that.”
AI agents will evolve into completely autonomous software engineers
“My prediction would be agents that are like completely autonomous software engineers. Today, I think we're all using Tools like CloudCode or Codex to write code, but not as literal software engineers.”
Server-side 24/7 frontier AI will be financially unaffordable
“No one's going to be able to afford a twenty-four-seven AI, Frontier AI, running on the server.”
24/7 AI agents will be delivered by orchestrators, not model builders
“I believe that the 2407 always on agent is going to be realized by the company that wants to play the role of the orchestrator, not the model builder, not the frontier model, but the orchestrator.”
AI orchestration will capture more long-term value than frontier models
“If you can solve this problem, you will capture the most economic value in AI long-term. Short term, it might look like, oh, like this other lab's revenue is growing, you know, exponentially, this, that, but long term, this is the one objective that truly matt…”
GPU cloud providers can become multi-hundred billion dollar businesses
“I certainly think they can be sustainable.”
AI data center buildouts will shift outside the US
“So we're still going to see data center build out. It might not happen in the US.”
20-person startups will build multi-billion dollar companies with AI
“There's going to be lots of amazing companies that are going to get built with far fewer people getting multi-billion dollar, multi-hundred million dollar valuations with like 20, 30 people and propelling like trillions of dollars of new GDP.”
AI agents will disrupt objective commerce, subjective buying stays ad-based
“The advertising model around like travel or shopping or like fashion are not getting disrupted by agents because the judgment is not objective. Any, anything where the judgment is objective, the transaction is based on objective judgment, that's going to get d…”
Perplexity will transition existing features to self-served open-source models
“We're training our own models post training it on top of amazing open source models, and that will bring down the cost that we currently spend on frontier model tokens. We expect to continue to use frontier models for designing new experiences and new capabili…”
World's largest enterprises will fine-tune open-source AI models
“Absolutely. Because it's in your incentives to bring down the cost.”
Srinivas: Superintelligent AI reasoning will kill $20 monthly subscriptions
“And like, I think when we achieve that it'll break all this 20 dollar a month Business models.”
Srinivas: AI models writing entire codebases is just a matter of time
“I think that's not the case today, which is why like these models are not so good that like, you know, they can just write an entire code base yet, but all that will happen. I think it's just a matter of time before, you know, they run another training run and…”
Srinivas: OpenAI and Anthropic will not get acquired
“I think with OpenAI and Anthropic, the value of the value of those companies is not in the models they have. That is a very first-order approximation. I think the second-order approximation is it's in the machine that's building the machine. That specific grou…”
Srinivas: In two years, Perplexity's differentiation from ChatGPT will be obvious
“And there's like some competition for mindshare and users, but even that will like be pretty clear, like two years from now, you're not going to keep asking how is perplexity different from chat GPT. Today you are, but two years from now, I don't think so.”
AI frontier will shift to chip design, drugs, and robotics
“Whatever is the frontier is going to be things that Kind of like AI is going and designing chips. AI is designing drugs. AI is figuring out how to build robots. AI is figuring out how to cure cancer. These are applications where you don't have like, ten millio…”
Undifferentiated AI spin-out labs will fail
“There are like just labs for the sake of being lab, and I don't think they're going to make it.”
Srinivas: Advertising will be Perplexity's primary revenue engine if executed well
“I would predict it'll be advertising. If we crack it, yes, it'll be advertising. If we don't crack it, if we are not, if we don't, if we haven't grown to that level in user basin, or if we grew and didn't figure out how to advertise really well, I think it'll …”
Srinivas: AI answer engines will not disrupt traditional web browsers
“I don't think browser is going to be disrupted because you get answers instead of links. People still want to browse. And get to a new website, get to a specific website, enter details, fill up forms, all those kinds of things.”
Google will launch a coding agent to compete with Codex
“Google doesn't yet have a product in this category, but I'm sure they're going to come after that.”
Perplexity will move AI inference to local devices to cut costs
“And now with progress in open source and local models and local chips, we're going to move some of the inference back to the local devices and bring down the cost even more.”