Srinivas: Big Tech AI labs cannot aggregate rival models without admitting failure
Aravind Srinivas · Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN · Mar 23, 2026 · at 48:41
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, explains why major AI infrastructure players like Google and OpenAI cannot adopt Perplexity's multi-model aggregator strategy.
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“It makes no sense for them. It would be an admission that all the data centers in CapEx they've built out still couldn't produce them the best model.”
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