PerplexityCo-founder and CEO
Aug 2022 — PresentSan Francisco, California, United States
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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.
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
OpenAIResearch Scientist
Until Aug 2022San Francisco Bay Area, United States
GoogleResearch Intern, Google Brain
2020 — 2021Mountain View, California, United States
Google DeepMindResearch Intern
2019 — 2019London, United Kingdom
Cosigns Received
Featured Media
engineering.berkeley.edu
Building Perplexity to make the planet smarter
A Berkeley interview on combining AI research, source-based search and entrepreneurship.
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.
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Relentless Curiosity
Aravind’s written Berkeley commencement address connects curiosity, continued learning, and the pace of building a company.
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.