Perplexity

also referred to as: perplexity ai

13 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2023 by Aravind Srinivas · said 43 times in 15 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Elad Gil (22), Aravind Srinivas (9), Glen Coates (4), Sarah Guo (3), Philipp Herzig (1), Jensen Huang (1), Guillermo Rauch (1), Denis Yarats (1)

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Apr 25, 2023
Insight
Srinivas: Iteration speed is the only path to success without product clarity
“If you don't have a clear idea of like, you know, which product you're going to build or which market you're going after and you still want to be giving, giving yourself a shot at success iteration speed is the only thing that you can hope for.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 7:49 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Google and Microsoft will match Perplexity's current search capabilities
“I feel like Google and Microsoft will pretty much do the same thing we have right now as well as us.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 33:42 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Perplexity to prioritize core RLHF over AI agents for 6-12 months
“We haven't gone beyond that to think of like agents and browsers and things like that. We, we'll probably focus more on the first part for the next at least six months to a year.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 20:05 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Perplexity Was Truly the First Conversational Answer Engine
“Perplexity is the first conversational answer engine like truly the first. I think nobody built it before us.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 23:21 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity grounds even conversational identity queries in web search
“In fact, it's more like a citation first service that it'll never say anything that it cannot say. So if you, if people have tried to play with it as if it's like chat GPT where like, tell me who are you or like things like that. And even for those questions, …”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 17:16 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023
Disclosure
Yarats: Perplexity built unreleased Twitter, Salesforce, and HubSpot integrations early on
“Even though we're like six months or like seven months old company, we actually built so many things. We had like, you know, Twitter, we had like a Salesforce integration. We have like HubSpot integration, like many other things that we never like released.”
Denis Yarats Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 14:40 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 bearish
Insight
Standalone LLMs cannot solve hallucination without a platform for user curation
“And I also don't think One LLM will just magically solve this problem. You need to build an end-to-end platform where users can correct the mistakes of an LLM, and that also means you need to design the platform where the incentive is right for the user”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 18:59 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Perplexity co-founder Johnny Ho was world number one in competitive programming
“He was the world number one at competitive programming. It's like being Magnus Carlsen of programming.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 4:17 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023
Insight
Yarats: Perplexity prefers raw drive over extensive experience when hiring
“Personally, I would rather like get somebody who has this Burning desire to work on these things rather than somebody who already has a lot of experience and not going to put a lot of, or like as much effort as other people.”
Denis Yarats Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 5:17 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Opinion
Denis Yarats says sacrificing work-life balance is required to beat competition
“It's kind of like work life balance, maybe not the ideal but you know, but that's the only way to sort of like beat competition and sort of like iterate very fast and do great things.”
Denis Yarats Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 7:31 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Apr 25, 2023 positive
Insight
Working in AI research or product does not require an AI background
“So it's always been clear to me that in order to work in AI, both research and product, you do not need to already have been in AI.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2023 ▶ 9:52 No Priors Ep. 9 | With Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats
Jan 31, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Coates: Perplexity sits exactly between ChatGPT's interface and Google's search
“The sort of the triangle of like perplexity, Google, ChatGPT of like, it's basically like LLM native search and like ChatGPT really good at the LLM interface thing, not amazing at search yet. Google amazing at search, not really figured out the LLM thing yet. …”
Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 32:05 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
Nov 7, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Jensen Huang: I don't learn anything without first consulting AI
“I don't learn anything without first going to an AI, you know. Why learn the hard way? Just go directly to an AI. I go directly to ChatGPT or, you know, sometimes I do perplexity just depending on just the formulation of my questions, and I just start learning…”
Jensen Huang Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 35:47 No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
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