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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.”
Srinivas: Mobile OEMs previously refused search meetings because Google paid too much
“Until now, like, people with OEMs would just not even take a meeting with you. If you ever go to them and say, hey, like, what do you think about using an alternative assistant or an alternative search? They'd be like Google is paying too much money. I'm not g…”
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.”
Srinivas: Neither the US nor China will slow down in AI race
“Like, the genie's out of the bottle. China versus America. That race is already going on. Nobody's gonna slow down and everybody wants glory. Nobody cares about the other people or something. Everybody wants glory and some kind of power to control the future.”
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.”
Srinivas: The next stage is AI chatbots becoming action-oriented native phone assistants
“I feel like this is the next stage, like, you know, moving all these AI chatbots to native assistants on the phone that not just answer your questions, but also help help you get things done.”
Srinivas: Most ChatGPT users do not know o1 or GPT-4 differences
“In fact, most people using tracks between the world don't even know there's a model called O one or O three and don't even know what the difference is for GPT four.”
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”
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…”
Srinivas: TikTok US decision is delayed and likely tied to tariffs
“I think they've delayed the decision and it's probably going to be coupled with the tariff situation too.”
Srinivas: Apple SDK allows integration with Calendar, Mail, Maps, and Music
“A lot of it is still exposed in the Apple SDK through the events kit. So that's how we got things done, like calendar, mail, reminders. These are all part of their SDK. So you can actually call it podcasts, Apple music that's Apple maps. All of these are possi…”
Srinivas: Apple restricts third-party AI from controlling native system settings
“You cannot do stuff that's more native, like alarms and volume and brightness you know, people want and everything system at the end of the day.”
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.”
Super Bowl ad was mocked on X but drove mainstream Perplexity adoption
“Actually, if you notice the Superbowl tweets didn't actually matter on X, like most people made fun of it or didn't even engage with it, but it did help us get a lot of like mainstream normal people become aware of the app and use it.”
Srinivas: ByteDance centralizes infra, growth, and mobile dev across apps
“They do have their own growth teams, but that's one team by dance that takes our infrastructure for all their companies. One team that takes their growth for all their companies. One team that takes their front end mobile development for all their apps. And so…”