Aravind Srinivas

14 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2025 by Aravind Srinivas · said 31 times in 12 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Apr 25, 2025 positive
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Srinivas: Perplexity will allow user thread publishing on Discover feed
“We have this thing called Discover and we're trying to increase the volume of content on Discover, and once we do that in an automatic way with curation to users interest. Like we're going to let some of the users pub try to like publish it to discover on thei…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 17:09 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: User retention from Perplexity's Super Bowl ad beat expectations
“The Super Bowl was good, like, in fact, like, the retention from people who came to the Super Bowl exceeded my expectations.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 21:51 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 positive
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Srinivas: Perplexity is building a browser to capture broad user context
“That's kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser is like, we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you. Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is It's purely work related. It's not like that personal. O…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 31:24 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Most consumers only use ChatGPT and have not heard of other apps
“We are living in a bubble, like they're, most people are only using chat GPT and they don't, they haven't even heard about like most of the other apps.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 23:53 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity launched voice assistant early over waiting for perfection
“I'll literally read out to you the chat I had with our engineer who worked on this. Be good to launch and announce today, question mark. And then he's like, yes, still making improvements, but let's launch. And me like, do you want to address some of the onboa…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 11:51 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
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Srinivas: Perplexity replaced a three-model agent pipeline with a single model
“Before O-three, the way we built, like, our agents, is there would be one model that gave, came up with a plan for the query, another model that would execute the plan by converting the plan to, like, Smaller queries, filtering links, calling searches, and the…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 27:35 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
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Srinivas: AI subscription market will expand dramatically as agents perform tasks
“If AI start doing things, not just answering questions or writing code people will pay even more because they kind of think about it as hiring somebody. If you look at the amount of people, people pay for personal assistants, chiefs of, chief of staffs, person…”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 30:06 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity Will Keep Using Third-Party Models When Needed
“I think we'll continue to keep the same strategy, which is have a version of our product that can run with our own models, but not hinder or disrupt the user from this best experience that we can provide to them. If we're not able to do it with our own model, …”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 9:11 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
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Aravind Srinivas: Frontier AI Model Leads Will Last Only a Few Weeks
“My, our belief is that nobody's gonna have a lead in them having the best AI model for more than a few weeks.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 9:32 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bearish
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Aravind Srinivas: Frontier AI Models Will Look Roughly Identical to Users
“The difficulty, which is why everybody's working on the difficult problem is making these truly smart and like better at all these reasoning tasks. And so that's going to end up making all these models roughly similar looking to the average user.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 11:00 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity aims to launch Comet browser by mid-May
“We've tried to scope it down and we're aiming to get it out by mid-May.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 32:15 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
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Srinivas: Most AI foundation model investment will go toward reinforcement learning
“I think RL is the place where most investments are gonna go to especially with models like O-three that are able to do tool calls pretty natively rather than being prompt engineered to do that”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 27:35 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Srinivas: Perplexity plans to invest more in RL post-training this year
“The nice thing is a lot of open source code bases exist on how to replicate GRPO or PPO and post training these models. And we've been doing that work already. So that's where we plan to invest more resources into for this year.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 29:08 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
Apr 25, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Srinivas: Instagram data shows user engagement drops when ads are removed
“Instagram has shown some stats where the engagement time on their platform reduces if they remove the ads because that's the level of personalization of the ads.”
Aravind Srinivas Apr 25, 2025 ▶ 30:58 Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
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