What-if
Perplexity Would Have Failed If Founded Six Months Earlier or Later
“If we had, you know, we got lucky with timing. If we had founded the company six months before we did, GPT-III would not have been good enough, the equivalent of it, at that point in time, and we wouldn't have been able to create that initial magical experienc…”
Insight
AI Brings Non-Specialists to 80% Expert Level in Unfamiliar Fields
“I think one mental model is to assume that using a tool like perplexity and other AIs, you can get to 80% of an expert level in a lot of fields that, you know, are not your profession, right?”
Insight
Shevelenko: Trust Will Be the Scarce Asset of the Agentic Internet
“And trust will be the scarce asset of the agentic internet.”
Assertion Supported
LLM Output Quality Deteriorates at Million-Token Context Sizes
“They claim million tokens, ten million tokens. When you start going up to that size of input. The quality deteriorates on the output”
Insight
Shevelenko: Speed Is the New Competitive Moat
“Speed is the new mode, right? So the one, if there's one takeaway, you have no excuse to not be moving faster, right? And really, you now have these superpowers at your fingertips.”
Insight
Sales Teams Should Use AI for Discovery Before Meetings
“Every question that you would ask in a meeting with some, you know, third party and an external party, you can be asking those questions of perplexity of different AIs in advance, right? So the, there's no excuse to not be informed. You should not actually be …”
Disclosure
Perplexity to Launch Projects Feature for Building Mini-Apps
“We're going to have the ability to build many apps and perplexity soon, or something's going to get announced called projects.”
Insight
AI Reduces Early Startup Prototyping From Weeks to One Hour
“To quickly visualize different concepts and get feedback on them, that should no longer take a week, a month. That's like an hour. And you should be constantly running through your head. You know, how can I do in one hour, what used to take a day? In one day, …”
Insight
Shevelenko: AI delivers 80% first drafts without replacing human judgment
“You should never then just take that output and immediately hit send. That's not, I think that's, it's not about replacing human judgment and oversight. It's about saving you that time to get to the 80% quality first draft and then making sure you're applying …”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shevelenko Predicts AI Context Windows Will Continue to Expand Reliably
“The one thing that you can rely on in terms of the direction of AI progress is the context windows will expand, right? You'll be able to feed more into the prompt and get a useful output right now.”
Insight
Perplexity CBO: Asking the Right Questions Remains Critical as AI Evolves
“Coming up with the right questions to ask will become the critical skill, right? And you can say that's a form of like prompting, but preserving the spark of curiosity and knowing where to take the next question. That's because the answers will keep getting sm…”
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Shevelenko Predicts AI Will Shift to Proactive Assistance Within 12 Months
“I think where we want to take the technology is to become a lot more proactive rather than being reactive, right? So instead of you having to always ask for the update of what's happening with this account, we're able to detect those changes that are meaningfu…”
Assertion Supported
Perplexity Serves 5,000 Enterprise Clients With Just Five Sales Reps
“We have around over 5000 enterprise clients for Prophexity Enterprise Pro, and we have five sellers.”
Insight
Human Sales Reps Remain Essential for Security and Compliance Reviews
“Where sellers end up being still very essential is things like security and compliance review, where you're actually, it goes back to trust where it's somewhat arbitrary process.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Over 75,000 Developers Currently Use Perplexity's Sonar APIs
“We have. 75,000 developers using them and in very much in the space where Sam is building, we're seeing a lot of traction.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Related Questions Are Perplexity's Most Popular Product Feature
“One of the most popular features in the product are the related questions that we show below the answer.”
Disclosure
Dmitry Shevelenko Uses Perplexity to Pre-Screen Contracts Before Legal Review
“Instead of immediately kicking over to the lawyer, I run it through perplexity and I prompt, I ask, Hey, what are the likely issues here? And what should I actually discuss with my counsel?”
