The Breakout Moment for AI

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People are so used to the modality of chat because they live in it all day long, this was the breakout moment for AI. People were using it in the back ends to serve you up your four year page on TikTok or fill in your search query. And then you put it into a chat UI and then it goes crazy, right? Makes you wonder if there's another thing that you could do that make the world go even crazier. I don't know why this doesn't exist yet. It's going to happen.

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Today’s show:

Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas joins Jason to discuss competing with the major players in the generative search / AI chatbot market (1:25), designing an AI-powered search engine (4:49), and much more. *

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(00:00) Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas joins Jason

(1:25) Competing in the generative search / AI chatbot market

(4:49) How Perplexity's AI model formulates answers

(11:18) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at https://crowdbotics.com/twist

(12:46) How Perplexity is citing sources

(20:20) Incorporating advertising into AI chatbots

(25:32) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://vanta.com/twist

(26:40) How Perplexity recruits talent and Aravind's time at OpenAI

(32:04) The future of AI technology and overcoming overlap