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Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:56 M.G. Siegler You could say like all the Android ecosystem together, but they're, they're so split between Samsung has their own AI and, and, you know, all these other services, you know, they partner with perplexity and, and so it's all going to be a…

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions Jun 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War Jun 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:10 Alex Kantrowitz Um, we'll, we'll feature this, including a conversation with Arvind Cernivas, uh, the CEO of Perplexity.

Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading Jun 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:47 Alex Kantrowitz We have just a few tickets left, so if you have any interest in joining me, Ranjan, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Semi-Analysis President and CEO, Dylan Patel, Aaron Levy from Box, and Arvind Srinivas from Perplexity, Lauren Good from…

The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? May 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:52 Alex Kantrowitz We have Greg Brockman from OpenAI who's coming, uh, the president of OpenAI, Arvind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, Aaron Levy, the CEO of Box, Lauren Good, the senior correspondent, uh, from Wired is gonna be there, and, um, we just…

AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko May 7, 2026 · 65 mentions

  • ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz Let's ask Perplexity's chief business officer right after this. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 0:26 Alex Kantrowitz Super app style product with Perplexity Computer.
  • ▶ 1:04 Dmitry Shevelenko Um, you know, we're, we have a great blossoming partnership with Apple. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:10 Alex Kantrowitz Let's not bury the lead here, though, which is that, you know, perplexity gained, I would say, mass awareness, at least in the tech industry, because of the search engine that you built. 14 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:36 Dmitry Shevelenko So I think consumer to us is not just people using perplexity to look up the weather, right? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:11 Alex Kantrowitz Arvind Srinivas CEO of perplexity is going to come speak with us.
  • ▶ 19:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, sink in my teeth, hence a perplexity computer, which is perplexity's agent, uh, or how super agent, I guess, is the best way to describe it.
  • ▶ 19:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, sink in my teeth, hence a perplexity computer, which is perplexity's agent, uh, or how super agent, I guess, is the best way to describe it. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:37 Dmitry Shevelenko I mean, it's, it's any, uh, so we actually are launching this week, 36 different workflows that go on top of computer. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:07 Dmitry Shevelenko Uh, I ran a, uh, analysis of, you know, what are the models that are being used inside of perplexity right now? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:54 Alex Kantrowitz I guess I see now why people are working on the Mac Mini, uh, because, you know, and, and this is enabled for me right now as we speak, that perplexity has all this access to, like, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:10 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I mean, maybe computer right now is like writing up client emails and sending them 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:49 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, why is perplexity? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:31 Dmitry Shevelenko And that is, that is actually one of the most powerful things about computer is on a single given task, it will use different models for different parts of that task, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:52 Alex Kantrowitz He's the Chief Business Officer of Perplexity. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:28 Dmitry Shevelenko Um, I'm, I'm fond of saying that the thing I'm most confident in is that six months from now, I'm going to personally have a perplexity, a top three priority that today I don't know what it is. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:08 Alex Kantrowitz There is this interesting argument, and I think you're, you're, you have a perspective on it at perplexity. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:30 Alex Kantrowitz Like perplexity has been, uh, I would say early on three trends, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:38 Dmitry Shevelenko That's also a lot of the, you know, not to bring it back to why perplexity computer is great, but you don't want to be, you know, tied into one model.

OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban May 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:06 Alex Kantrowitz So that includes, uh, perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world.
  • ▶ 35:57 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, if you look at like apps like perplexity, for instance, like they'll allow you to use like the open AI or anthropic models or Kimmy K too, which they have, of course, like they've downloaded the weights.

More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit Apr 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:59 M.G. Siegler Um, Claude code comes in and others perplexity and, and even Microsoft and some others are now trying to make it more, uh, you know, regular user consumer friendly.
  • ▶ 42:59 M.G. Siegler It's way too buried within Siri, but if they make it more of a first class citizen and along with Claude, if you wanted Claude, if you wanted perplexity, if you wanted any number of other sort of, uh, apps, they'll just allow them to plug…

OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie Apr 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 35:45 Aaron Levie And now you go to, ah, you know, great example is perplexity computer. 2 times in the scene

Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD Mar 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:17 M.G. Siegler Wondering, is this some sort of massive play to get sort of all of the models in house to, you know, a lot of, there's a lot of talk right now about orchestration and the idea that like, um, like perplexity and others are now trying to…

Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:04 Alex Kantrowitz protested in a big way from having, I think, perplexity scrape its pages, and it seems like this is gonna happen on consumer, and this is gonna happen, because this, is this a conversation that OpenAI has with you?

Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles Feb 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 47:03 Ranjan Roy One thing I will say, do you know what's notable to me on this chart here is perplexity and perplexity should, if they're gonna compete, that was like a very mobile first consumer friendly experience. 3 times in the scene

The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 50:24 M.G. Siegler But it wasn't for, no, it wasn't perplexity and it wasn't for a frontier model, uh, company.

AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball Jan 13, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 49:54 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so, so one more prediction that you have is someone is going to buy perplexity. 6 times in the scene

2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Dec 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:37 Reed Albergotti And they would love to like disintermediate Amazon, like, like all these, all these chatbot companies perplexity to like, they'd love to just have you be able to shop on Amazon and never have to go to Amazon.

CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market Dec 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Jim Cramer But sometimes, the last line in Confessions of the Street Act, my first book is, it's better to be lucky than good, and I think that they had a series of setbacks, and you look, these high profile, no salary cap, take, uh, stealing of…
  • ▶ 6:26 Jim Cramer I think that Apple's going to get a check beneficiary from someone, a perplexity.
  • ▶ 28:24 Jim Cramer I mean, I'm like, do you know that at one point or another, I liked my perplexity.

AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers Dec 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:56 Ranjan Roy Their browser, Atlas, I've tried it, used it, it's as good as Comet from Perplexity.

OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity Nov 10, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk gets a one trillion dollar pay package to build an entirely new Tesla, and Amazon sues perplexity.
  • ▶ 0:46 Alex Kantrowitz Tesla's, uh, shareholders, and Amazon has sued perplexity putting the bot internet into question.
  • ▶ 41:33 Alex Kantrowitz Bloomberg says, uh, Amazon sues to stop perplexity from using AI tools to buy stuff. 8 times in the scene

OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:09 M.G. Siegler We got perplexities browser doing some of that, but it's nowhere near it needs to be in terms of actual day to day usability and, and usefulness.

OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back Oct 27, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:22 Ranjan Roy I've been using Perplexity Comet.
  • ▶ 57:34 Ranjan Roy They're suing a number of providers, including perplexity for, uh, like, uh, you know, scraping Reddit data in unauthorized ways. 4 times in the scene

Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann Oct 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:30 Rick Heitzman and I'm not available on a podcast, you know, those things have generally been broad based chat GPT or perplexity.
  • ▶ 10:04 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I think it's kind of been this debate that's gone on, uh, where people say that any AI application is just a wrapper, like perplexity is just an AI wrapper that you do search in.

Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:55 Aaron Levie And so the kind of technologies that have clearly broken through our ChatGPT, products like cursor, products like, let's say, you know, a bunch of these kind of next gen research agent type things, perplexities done well in that kind of…

Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture Sep 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:15 Alex Kantrowitz Does Samsung, for instance, by virtue of its partnership with perplexity now have potentially convert some iPhone users away from Apple or iPhone customers away from Apple because it has that generative AI, uh, offering?

Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest Sep 8, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 1:58 Alex Kantrowitz Apple plans AI powered web search tool for Siri to rival open AI and perplexity. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:35 Ranjan Roy So I think, and it's only to qualified competitors and what that means is that DuckDuckGo is that perplexity, I think is all up in the air. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:11 Ranjan Roy Is it's getting people into Gemini while we're everyone's using chat GPT perplexity and Claude that apparently ten million people who are new to Gemini use the app to use it for images.
  • ▶ 27:27 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, but ultimately I know about you, but I see myself doing more and more searches within a chat CPT and of course perplexity.

Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching? Aug 6, 2025 · 1 mention

Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:50 Alex Kantrowitz NVIDIA owns stakes in OpenAI, XAI, Mistral, Perplexity, Cohere, Scale AI, 2 times in the scene

Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars Jul 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:00 Stephen Morris A hated rival like Perplexity or OpenAI, buy that and have one of the best distribution methods for their AI technology in the world.

Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:13 Alex Kantrowitz One of the interesting details that has been overlooked in those hearings is that nobody, not Microsoft, not perplexity, or whoever it may be, can make money off of search in the way Google can.
  • ▶ 20:35 Ed Zitron Perplexity hasn't.
  • ▶ 53:50 Ed Zitron Perplexity releasing, like, a 1776 version of R-One without the Tiananmen Square thing. 4 times in the scene

Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts Jul 21, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 9:01 unnamed speaker There's endless stats that, yes, like, the ChatGPT's perplexities, Gemini's of the world are seeing more adoption, but are people really adopting the level of complexity that this new level of compute and scaling allows you, or are people…
  • ▶ 31:47 Alex Kantrowitz So one company that, you know, has been talked about here and elsewhere about as a candidate for aqua hire or really acquisition is perplexity. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:54 unnamed speaker Perplexity Pro has shopping

OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 · 1 mention

Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler Jul 9, 2025 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz We said, okay, they're going to have to make some dramatic moves, maybe grasp for a perplexity, do some, uh, acquisition or potentially even
  • ▶ 16:16 M.G. Siegler Um, but the one above that, even for me was, uh, Anthropic, even though I don't think it's possible for them to do that for all sorts of reasons, namely the price at this point.
  • ▶ 28:15 Alex Kantrowitz And that is that maybe Apple is in negotiations with perplexity and they're just trying to drive down the price saying, well, we could just easily bring in these anthropic models. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:10 M.G. Siegler And I should say our friends, uh, we often talk about perplexity are coming out with their own.

An AI Brain For Your Business? Jul 1, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree Jun 23, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 7:19 Alex Kantrowitz I really wouldn't be very different from all the bots on Twitter that came after me for my perplexity acquisition take, but anyway.
  • ▶ 36:36 Alex Kantrowitz Such as perplexity and character AI. 6 times in the scene

Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos Jun 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:59 Ranjan Roy That's essentially kind of like the chat interface chatbot experience that you would expect from a chat GPT or perplexity.

What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler Jun 11, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 36:18 Alex Kantrowitz This is why I've been jumping up and down on the table for them to acquire perplexity would be the biggest acquisition in their history by far. 6 times in the scene

Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack Jun 9, 2025 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 9:24 Ranjan Roy Perplexity voice is so good.
  • ▶ 25:00 Alex Kantrowitz And out walks Perplexity CEO Arvin Cernivas. 15 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:57 Ranjan Roy Apple by perplexity and then release the Epstein files.
  • ▶ 56:28 Ranjan Roy Well, we've seen this over and over on the publisher side, like perplexity in Forbes, but perplexity was even kind of presenting an image in a very long summary of paywalled content. 2 times in the scene

Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco May 19, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 18:56 Ranjan Roy Perplexity is a media company.
  • ▶ 49:45 Alex Kantrowitz Let's end, uh, with another story about how even in the, their current state, these models are ingesting everything, and that is perplexity partnering with PayPal for in-chat shopping. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:19 Ranjan Roy Cause again, before you had to subscribe to perplexity pro,

Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:51 Gary Marcus And what I was quote cheating there was something from Aravind Srinivas, if I pronounce his name correctly, who's the CEO of perplexity.

The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck Apr 28, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:46 Ranjan Roy I, uh, moved towards perplexity, ChatGPT even, and even like Gemini itself separate from Google's regular search that has heavy ads and a heavy ad load.
  • ▶ 47:30 Ranjan Roy We've already seen, though, that perplexity has, if you're a perplexity pro subscriber, 2 times in the scene

Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony Apr 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:53 Ranjan Roy And again, I use chat GPT frequently, but I also use all Claude perplexity, Gemini, everything.
  • ▶ 38:16 Alex Kantrowitz For, like, finally just started connecting with the web, and we know perplexity is connected to the web as well and has a discover page where it will push you information.

OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI Apr 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:49 Ranjan Roy I myself, this was an all perplexity, ChatGPT, even met a Ray-Ban asking questions on the fly trip for me.

Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:05 Ranjan Roy To me, the, ah, man, it almost makes me question my normalcy because I'm on perplexity all day.

Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:55 Alex Kantrowitz They of course have search as a, as a, I think a continuing liability where people will try the perplexities of the world.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job Nov 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:26 Marc Benioff You know, Google has Gemini, there's ChatGPT, there's u.com, there's Perplexity, there's Copilot, there's all these, these things, you know, they're just on your phone, you're just talking to the, basically the same data set through a very…
  • ▶ 37:49 Marc Benioff And you.com and perplexity and many, they're very, all very similar actually right now.

OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand Nov 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:04 Ranjan Roy I think that's where perplexity has gotten, is, is beating them right now, because I still think of perplexity more as a search engine than I do ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene

Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play Nov 15, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 24:24 Ranjan Roy I have it bookmarked, but I mean, still, Claude perplexity, ChatGPT, steady rotation, all for different use cases. 7 times in the scene

OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data Oct 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:31 Cory Weinberg We don't know what that'll look like, but obviously, you know, we know there's a lot that's not out in the world that they've teased like Sora and, you know, kind of a perplexity type of competitor to.

OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation Aug 30, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 15:53 Alex Kantrowitz And I think in most of them, including perplexity and open and touch APT, you're starting to see some of these like prompts that sort of push you towards 3 times in the scene

AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business Apr 4, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 33:57 Jim Lanzone I mean, if you, you know, including if you type in, how does perplexity AI work into, into Google with Gemini lit up and into perplexity is very interesting. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 47:32 Jim Lanzone And, um, and again, I, you know, the, the, the fact that someone would spend 21 minutes on perplexity versus just trying to get to a navigational query is one example, or a quick answer, what time it is, what's the weather, how does… 3 times in the scene

Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 44:11 Alex Kantrowitz I know you've, uh, you're, you're connected with perplexity in some way. 2 times in the scene
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