Srinivas: Building a web search index is harder than competing with GPT-4
Aravind Srinivas · Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search · Nov 1, 2023 · at 33:38
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, compares the technical and resource challenges of training frontier AI models versus indexing the web.
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“We believe that building your own index is even harder than trying to compete with GPT-IV because it's not a problem that's just solved with money.”
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