Srinivas: Anthropic Opus was an inflection point in AI model orchestration
Aravind Srinivas · Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN · Mar 23, 2026 · at 54:35
Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity AI. He discusses the technical evolution of model context windows and orchestration during a live All-In Podcast recording at NVIDIA GTC 2024.
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“That was an inflection point when models were, started being amazingly good at orchestration and reasoning and tool calls.”
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