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Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:41:37 Alex Kantrowitz No, a perplexity computer will basically do that. 2 times in the scene
Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- ▶ 14:49 Alex Kantrowitz No, perplexity computer will basically do that. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 42:52 Alex Kantrowitz He's the Chief Business Officer of Perplexity. 2 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
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 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.
Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 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?
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 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
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 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
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 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.
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:58 Alex Kantrowitz Apple plans AI powered web search tool for Siri to rival open AI and perplexity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 32:50 Alex Kantrowitz NVIDIA owns stakes in OpenAI, XAI, Mistral, Perplexity, Cohere, Scale AI, 2 times in the scene
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 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.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 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
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 41:57 Alex Kantrowitz So I've been on the show advocating for perplexity.
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 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
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 25:00 Alex Kantrowitz And out walks Perplexity CEO Arvin Cernivas. 15 times in the scene
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 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
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 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.
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 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.
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 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
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 44:11 Alex Kantrowitz I know you've, uh, you're, you're connected with perplexity in some way. 2 times in the scene
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
- ▶ 0:01 Alex Kantrowitz The CEO of the hottest AI startup in the world joins us to talk about talent, tech, and his challenge to Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, your, your company is a search company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Alex Kantrowitz Like I saw on your Twitter feed, you were asking perplexity, what's the next trillion dollar company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:11 Alex Kantrowitz He's the CEO of Perplexity. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:48 Alex Kantrowitz Like 30 something minutes, 21 minutes and 58 seconds on perplexity and not just, you know, zinging out to websites through Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:47 Alex Kantrowitz And if people want to check out perplexity, where can they find it?