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⚡️Context Graphs: according to the authors — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:40 Jaya Gupta Like, it was, like, literally right after ChatGPT, and I think the only things that really existed were Langchain, Llama Index, and, like, Perplexity were, like, sort of the three companies that came out right after, and so anything that… 2 times in the scene
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 0:54 Shawn Wang But you had together, you had perplexity and, uh, I think we just started chatting there.
[State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
- ▶ 0:25 Shawn Wang So your intro is very, very long, but you're a co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, and, and now I think, um, people are less familiar with the Loud Institute and what you're, what you're doing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:15 Andy Konwinski There's even examples, you know, more and more examples of researchers besides perplexity coming out of Berkeley, like Ella Marina more recently has become a difficult standard for value for all of the, the whole ecosystem.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 48:50 Shawn Wang Atlassian, Perplexity, OpenAI.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 6:55 Matthias Wagner And I think, which is my hypothesis, what happened, I think in general in the world is that people changed what they expected from software, from using all these other tools like perplexity, ChatTPT, and so on, right?
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 27:59 unnamed speaker For Flexity.
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 21:28 Andy Konwinski I'm a founder of Databricks and perplexity and this thing called Laud.
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 43:16 Emily Glassberg Sands A year ago, Perplexity launched a travel search and booking agent. 2 times in the scene
Terminal-Bench: Pushing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Factory Droid, et al to the limits
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 1:05:54 Shawn Wang You know, there's like robots, there's XAI, there's perplexity, there's all these other things.
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 23:59 Shawn Wang Like perplexity was one of the first to put it on my radar as like, they were like, we'll attach the search engine to the LLM and that's what you get now.
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 4:37 Robert McCloy They want to use, you know, whether it's Chateauetee or it's Claude, um, or Perplexity or what have you.
- ▶ 7:08 Robert McCloy AI overviews could be considered up there as well, if you consider that in the same category, um, AI mode, perplexity, and you can kind of go down the list from there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:28 unnamed speaker You haven't mentioned perplexity, which I think is interesting. 5 times in the scene
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 23:56 Shawn Wang Here's one for you, Perplexity Research. 3 times in the scene
⚡️Anthropic vs Cognition on Multi-Agents: A Breakdown with Dylan Davis
- ▶ 3:04 Dylan Davis I do, I do perplexity.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:19:35 Dharmesh Shah I'm trying to think about all the things I've said, uh, investor in OpenAI, perplexity, lane graph, crew AI, limitless, a bunch of them.
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 23:48 Kevin Ben-Smith So basically we have, we have an LLM that goes through the entire transcript and identifies if a user, uh, mentions a book, then we use perplexity API together with various other LLM orchestration to go out there on the internet, find…
- ▶ 33:48 Kevin Ben-Smith So the Gemini models and, and the open AI models, and we use some perplexity basically for those things where we need, where we need web search. 7 times in the scene
The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
- ▶ 11:18 Shawn Wang Uh, actually perplexity, I think was the first to say to offer an API that is connected to search.
Solve coding, solve AGI [Reflection.ai launch w/ CEO Misha Laskin]
- ▶ 10:12 Misha Laskin You can kind of think of this already happening in that, like the backend for like the opening on search products or perplexity or some of these other companies.
Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era
- ▶ 25:40 unnamed speaker Like perplexity kind of plays in this category.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 12:52 William Beauchamp Now, four years later, that's like perplexity or something.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 21:02 unnamed speaker Elephants in the room are perplexity and search GPT. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:02 unnamed speaker You know, you're, you're one player in that, um, there's perplexity, chat, GPT search, and Google, but there's also like the B to B side.
- ▶ 54:24 unnamed speaker And like, one of the things that I was very surprised, surprised for perplexity and character as well was that they couldn't get it so low.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 0:32 Shawn Wang Because every answer was cursor and perplexity.
- ▶ 57:14 Alessio Fanelli So perplexity, which is a EtoB customers, they do all these nice charts for like finance and all these different things.
- ▶ 1:22:48 Shawn Wang So January we had the first round of the year for perplexity.
- ▶ 1:39:28 Alessio Fanelli And then yeah, the search wars, I think that was, you know, search GPT, perplexity.
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- ▶ 13:21 Pranav Reddy They're pretty compelling mechanisms, and on the productivity side, Perplexity and Glean have demonstrated this as well.
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 57:39 Shawn Wang So for example, perplexity, 2 times in the scene
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 23:06 Alistair Pullen So we have a tool where you can like put in URLs and it will just read the URLs and you can, it also uses perplexities API under the hood as well to be able to actually ask questions if it wants to.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
[LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
- ▶ 1:15:38 unnamed speaker And if I'm looking it through, um, basically, and then even when I use the similar prompt that I give through perplexity, I get different answers, but since I know the domain, I know that sometimes, like, is just bullshitting. 2 times in the scene
How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- ▶ 1:05:27 Mark Huang Like if you can actually understand like perplexity, for instance, like that's, you'll, you'll already be well ahead on the research.
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 27:15 unnamed speaker And I think I reasonably worked out that you can serve mixed trial, and the, the, the lowest you can possibly charge if you, like, take the most aggressive amortization of all your, uh, capex and all that, is 50 to 75 cents per million… 3 times in the scene