Shevelenko: Codex and proprietary AI assistants will never run rival models
Dmitry Shevelenko · AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko · May 7, 2026 · at 37:37
Dmitry Shevelenko, CBO of Perplexity, explains why Perplexity's model-agnostic aggregation will outperform proprietary assistants from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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“So the one thing that Codex is never going to be able to support is running Gemini models. You know, they will always be in the GPT family. Same thing for, you know, Claude, like they're not gonna, you know, have GPT models. Gemini is not gonna have Grok models.”
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