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Srinivas: AI outside Google is now higher quality than Google's internal AI
“So the first time, for the first time, we have had intelligence outside Google, like artificial intelligence outside Google, that's of higher quality than what is inside Google.”
Srinivas: Perplexity AI summaries constitute fair use of publisher content
“I think that's very fair use of other people's content. We're not stealing it. We're actually, like, just being a middleman between them and the end reader, and we're giving them more visibility, right?”
Srinivas: Google Has More Talented People Than Even OpenAI
“I mean, you have to be insane to think you have more talented people than Google. I don't even think OpenAI has that, even though, like, they have a massive concentration of talent density today.”
Srinivas: Perplexity's Total Addressable Market Mathematically Has No Upper Bound
“This product has no upper bound, honestly. Because it's upper bounded by the number of people on the planet multiplied by each individual's curiosity and Curiosity has no upper bound either, right? So therefore by mathematically the Tam of perplexity has no up…”
Srinivas: Google has no incentive to save search users' time
“And there is no incentive for Google to save your time in searches, by the way, because
the whole point for them is that you spend as much time opening, like, 10 tabs on Chrome the browser they control, and give, give the analytics to all of these independen…”