There are so many new artificial intelligence products out there. Which ones are really worth your time?

If I had to pick one, it wouldn’t be ChatGPT or Claude. It would be Perplexity.ai.

I decided to speak to the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas. When we recorded this, Aravind and his team were hot off the heels of a $500 million funding round led by IVP.

I was particularly excited to cover the following nine areas…

- Google’s innovator’s dilemma.
- The fuzzy art of shipping products built on AI models.
- AI as ignition for a new era of human entrepreneurship.
- Mapping out the route to AGI.
- Going from from autocomplete to autopilot in the coming years.
- Safety in a world with billions of AIs.
- AI open-source: democratizing progress or losing control?
- Beyond the technology: how do we get the public behind this journey?

0:00 Introduction to Perplexity and Aravind's journey as a founder
7:50 How Perplexity works
13:58 What Aravind brings to Perplexity from his time at OpenAI and DeepMind
27:00 Improvement rate of Perplexity
29:52 Google Innovator's Dilemma
36:40 AI's impact on work
53:50 Open-source vs closed-source
1:00:00 Historical perspective on AI's development

*This is not a promotion of Perplexity. Do your own research and pick the tools that work for you.