Creating the future of search and competing vs Google with Perplexity AI’s Aravind Srinivas | E1770

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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. *

Check out Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/

Follow Aravind: https://twitter.com/AravSrinivas

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Time stamps:

(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

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(12:46) How Perplexity is citing sources

(20:20) Incorporating advertising into AI chatbots

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

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

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(39:53) Meta's LLaMa model being leaked

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