Aravind Srinivas

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Aravind Srinivas cofounded Perplexity to make AI search useful and grounded in sources, drawing on research at OpenAI, Google and DeepMind and a PhD at UC Berkeley. He also backs fellow founders as an angel investor, including ElevenLabs and Brain Co.

Career

PerplexityCo-founder and CEO

Aug 2022 — PresentSan Francisco, California, United States

OpenAIResearch Scientist

Sep 2021 — Aug 2022San Francisco Bay Area, United States

GoogleResearch Intern, Google Brain

May 2020 — Apr 2021Mountain View, California, United States

Google DeepMindResearch Intern

May 2019 — Sep 2019London, United Kingdom

Cosigns Received

Products & media

engineering.berkeley.edu

Building Perplexity to make the planet smarter

A Berkeley interview on combining AI research, source-based search and entrepreneurship.

Writing

youtube.com

Building Perplexity AI — Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats on No Priors

Srinivas and cofounder Denis Yarats discuss Perplexity’s early experiments, hiring, trustworthy answers, and the business of AI search.

Video

linkedin.com

Relentless Curiosity

Aravind’s written Berkeley commencement address connects curiosity, continued learning, and the pace of building a company.

Writing

bair.berkeley.edu

Can RL From Pixels be as Efficient as RL From State?

Coauthored with Misha Laskin, Kimin Lee, Adam Stooke, Lerrel Pinto and Pieter Abbeel, this explains how CURL and RAD reduce the experience needed to learn control from images, and where contrastive learning still matters.