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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Perplexity comes up
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:34 Harj Taggar Personally, I found it was better than all the other tools for that, and it was better than Perplexity on it, too. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:08 Garry Tan And so I'll use perplexity for fast web searches or things that, um, you know, I know is like a research task because I think ChatGPT is still like a little bit of a step behind for searching the web.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:07 Harj Taggar Juicebox is an AI sourcing platform backed by Sequoia and used by Ramp, Cursor, and Perplexity to recruit the best talent in the world.
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:17 Max Junestrand And so does companies like Perplexity and others.
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:25 Aravind Srinivas Google I.O. last year was AI overview, and perplexity's dead. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:40 David Lieb Aravind, I see you every, I don't know, two or three months, and you give me an update on the latest on perplexity.
- ▶ 1:19 Aravind Srinivas That's the big bet we are making as far as the future of the company goes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:39 Aravind Srinivas Um, people said perplexity is a great product.
- ▶ 5:57 David Lieb Um, and I think hearing your story of like how you started perplexity, uh, would be really interesting to them because it's probably exactly the world that they're in now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 David Lieb Um, and maybe one step before you actually left to go start the company, like, how did you find your co-founders? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:19 David Lieb Um, okay, so you launched this first version of perplexity, which is largely to, like, do Twitter search, effectively. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 David Lieb Yeah, I heard you talk about this recently, but, you know, Google specifically has been trying to build perplexity-like experiences, um, and, you know, you joked. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 Aravind Srinivas Google I.O. last year was AI overview, and perplexity's dead. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Aravind Srinivas We made it mandatory to use at least one AI coding tool, and internally at perplexity it happens to be cursor and like a mix, mix of cursor and GitHub Copilot.
- ▶ 22:12 David Lieb Yeah, um, in talking to a lot of folks here, one of the major questions that I've heard is, um, as these coding tools get better and better and better, what is the, like, actual enduring value of a company like yours, if, if increasingly… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 David Lieb Beyond brand, like, do you think about any network effect types of things emerging with perplexity? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, with your recent partnership with NVIDIA to ship AI models across Europe, um, there's been talks about perplexity being installed on, um, all Samsung phones or pre-installed, um, and that could lift your valuation towards… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:29 David Lieb Like, if you're Google, would you just build a separate thing that is the perplexity competitor and, and sacrifice the distribution advantage that you have in, in the short run? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:20 unnamed speaker Uh, so in a recent interview with Nikhil Kamath, he asked you for an internship at Perplexity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:26 unnamed speaker Uh, kind of the sustainability of perplexity, not in terms of the business model, but just in terms of the web in general. 3 times in the scene
Legendary Consumer VC Predicts The Future Of AI Products · Y Combinator
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:57 Andrej Karpathy Maybe to show one more example of a fairly successful LLM app, uh, perplexity, um, it also has very similar features to what I've just pointed out in Cursor.
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:08 Jared Friedman They're actually powering the customer support for Perplexity and Replit and Bolt and a bunch of other like top AI companies now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:22 Diana Hu And then as they add specific instances of that API and calling it, then they stuff all that in into more the developer prompt, which is not shown here, and that adds all the context of, let's say, working with perplexity.
AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:35 Aaron Epstein Okay, so I get a bunch of, uh, companies that I'm sure many of the audience has heard of, uh, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, um, and it's got some information like, uh, HQ location and industry and website URLs. 2 times in the scene
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:21 David Lieb Today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:40 David Lieb Today we're joined by Aravind Sreenivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, which in less than three years has grown to more than a nine billion dollar valuation.
- ▶ 6:39 David Lieb Like, I know you did a bunch of demos that were very dissimilar from Perplexity.
- ▶ 9:36 David Lieb How did you transition from that to now what we all know as perplexity?
- ▶ 16:59 Aravind Srinivas It's already too much information, so there, it's clearly, like, feels like, you know, fast food and, like, healthy meal difference for using Google and perplexity on even informational queries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 Aravind Srinivas Yeah, I do get pissed off if answers are wrong, and I do get pissed off if people on Twitter are saying, like, perplexity is degrading, or like, you know, but a lot of the things, some things are actually not true,
- ▶ 27:37 David Lieb Like today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:48 Aravind Srinivas I feel like Perplexity is better positioned to do these things than OpenAI Anthropic because we have it in our DNA to care about the user and the product.