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Srinivas: Perplexity has positive gross margins on all revenue
“Our one thing that perplexity has is every revenue we make, unlike certain other wrapper companies, every revenue perplexity makes has positive gross margins.”
Srinivas: Big Tech AI labs cannot aggregate rival models without admitting failure
“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.”
Srinivas: Perplexity is developing local AI integration for private data orchestration
“So we know something called personal computer perplexity, personal computer. That's essentially going to take all the trust and reliability and the server side execution of perplexity computer, but synchronize it with your local computer so that you can use it…”
Srinivas: AI is replacing traditional operating systems with objective-driven computing
“AI is the operating system. Like earlier in the traditional operating system, you execute programmatically. Now you start with objectives, not specific instructions.”
Srinivas: Perplexity staff message AI agent on Slack more than colleagues
“And our entire company works like that. People are talking more to computer on Slack than other people.”
Srinivas: Value accrues to orchestration harnesses as AI models specialize
“So the, when models are kind of specializing, the, there's a bigger value in the one who knows how to build a great harness. That can take the best in each model.”
Srinivas: Non-engineers at Perplexity AI ship code using Slack AI bots
“Even non-engineers are shipping code here by just pinging a slack bot and asking it to fix bugs.”
Srinivas: Local AI execution will start off as sub-agents for private data
“My prediction is that initially start off as a sub agent. So whatever you need to go like your tax returns, your personal photos, your emails, your calendar, all that stuff, those local apps, your personal notes, very personal notes. You can make sure that the…”
Srinivas: Enterprise is Perplexity's fastest-growing revenue segment
“It's the fastest growing business for us. It's growing faster than the consumer and revenue”
Srinivas: Anthropic Opus was an inflection point in AI model orchestration
“That was an inflection point when models were, started being amazingly good at orchestration and reasoning and tool calls.”
Srinivas: Automating web workflows requires AI that natively controls browsers
“Until the whole world is organized around CLIs and tools. There's still a lot of tasks we have to do manually on the web, on the browser, open tabs, fill up forms, click on things, upload stuff. All that stuff, if you want to automate, you need a browser. You …”