Perplexity and LinkedIn are working together to give all LinkedIn Premium users (with English as default language) one year Perplexity Pro. Look for an email from LinkedIn.
This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature
Excited to announce we've raised 73.6M$ at 520M$ valuation, led by IVP, along with our seed and Series A lead investors NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman. Honored to have NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos,
@tobi
, Databricks,
@naval
,
@rauchg
,
@balajis
partner in this round, among others.
Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu
This is the first demo of any agent, leave alone coding, that seems to cross the threshold of what is human level and works reliably. It also tells us what is possible by combining LLMs and tree search algorithms: you want systems that can try plans, look at results, replan, and
Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.
Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.
Devin is
Perplexity’s mission is to cater to the world's curiosity. We have taken inspiration from Wikipedia with citations. We’re excited to take it further by launching Pages, best described as “AI Wikipedia.” The effort of analyzing sources and synthesizing a readable page is now
Jeff Bezos invested in Google in 1998, before it had any business model figured out, or was sky-rocketing in search traffic. His investment in Perplexity is symbolically significant. Times are changing. Search is changing. We are entering a new age.
Got awarded the Bodhi leaf by IIT Madras today, for giving a leadership lecture. Bodhi is a tree that symbolizes wisdom, which motivates and aligns with the mission of Perplexity: to make the planet smarter. Thanks to
@ravi_iitm
for hosting me!
In the first few weeks of launching Perplexity, an early OG Google employee told me the same thing as this: "don't worry too much about getting a lot of users to compete with Google. You're living in an age where unsupervised learning from raw internet text works. you do not need
Entertainment aside, getting rid of CNNs for real-world AI deployment is almost impossible. Even if you went for a ViT architecture, you must process the input using local patches with shared weights for efficiency and generalization. It is even more the case for processing
Well articulated by Zuck. Meta is the *only* profitable company that prints a lot of money without relying on a cloud business. And everything to gain by having others build and improve on top of your models. He also expects we are headed toward commoditization of these models.
There's a misconception that anyone who tweets about Perplexity is an investor shilling the product. This is Michael Dell, who messaged out of the blue, soon after we launched Perplexity, a year ago, appreciating the product. The product gets genuine user love.
Sergey was at Stability AI launch party last year. There, Sergey talked to Ashish Vaswani (inventor of Transformer). Instead of small talk, Sergey asks him why he picked sinusoidal position embeddings and whether he had tried other variants. Nerds never die.
Was a great honor to meet
@NandanNilekani
in DC. Nandan was the commencement speaker when I received my undergraduate degree at IIT Madras 6-7 years ago.
It is sad that in order to be able to pursue deep hard tech over a long time horizon, (mostly) you need to have had a quicker financial success of some magnitude in your career once before, mostly with something that’s not really hard tech. Musk, Bezos, etc. It makes you assume
There's a lot of anti-Google narrative, and I have contributed to it too, mostly for fun, but an excess of anything isn't good. I am super grateful for Google and what's it done to me. Amazing mentors from my internship, lot of TPU compute credits from them for my PhD research,
Yep, thanks to
@elonmusk
and xAI team for open-sourcing the base model for Grok. We will fine-tune it for conversational search and optimize the inference, and bring it up for all Pro users!
Perplexity has been ranked the number one AI chatbot in a survey run by Wall Street Journal, ahead of ChatGPT, Gemini. Microsoft Copilot is the least preferred.
A new internet begins.
@joshm
and I are excited to share that Perplexity is now a default option on Arc! This is something that a lot of users have asked for, quite a while. And finally it’s ready!
After 100s of queries myself as a user, with Claude 3 (Opus and Sonnet) as the default model on Perplexity, I’m yet to see a hallucination. I couldn’t have said this for GPT 4. And seeing similar reports from others like
@sharifshameem
and
@rauchg
who are switching.
Was great to chat with Lex about AI, LLMs, reasoning, search, great tech entrepreneurs! Lex is a genuinely curious human interested in asking questions and learning more, a human quality that we can keep tapping into as AIs get smarter at answering questions. Check it out!
Here's my conversation with Aravind Srinivas (
@AravSrinivas
), CEO of Perplexity. We talk about the history & future of AI, web search, and the Internet. Plus, lots of great advice on how to start and run a company. I met Aravind many years ago at Berkeley, and it was a bit
If Elon Musk is coming after Google, it means he senses there’s a big opportunity in the search market. We are entering the age of a new internet, that’s truth seeking, uncensored and built for the curious mind.
Perhaps it is now clear why
@xAI
’s Grok is so important.
It is far from perfect right now, but will improve rapidly. V1.5 releases in 2 weeks.
Rigorous pursuit of the truth, without regard to criticism, has never been more essential.
The world's best open-source chat LLM, DBRX, is now available for free, on . Perplexity Labs Playground basically has everything that you need for chat, for free, with better LLMs (Haiku, DBRX, Sonar) than 3.5-turbo, the model powering free chatGPT. Curious
Open Source AGI is an amazing vision. You are building a very powerful technology, and, actually aligning to what makes sense for the world: more people have a say in what makes sense and doesn't. Zuck and
@ylecun
are leading the revolution, and it's going to have an incredible
Hearing that schools in Mountain View and Los Altos have banned Perplexity and ChatGPT, but Google products are allowed, and the schools purchase Chromebooks by default (Mac allowed but not by default).
Warren Buffett uses a phone only for calls and texts. Should we bring back the good old phones with just two functionalities—call and text—and make them popular again?
🚨 Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available on Perplexity! With 2x faster speed than Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet unlocks new possibilities for complex AI applications across reasoning, knowledge, and coding tasks.
In the
@lexfridman
podcast, he asked me whether him saying (on the podcast) that he's smart and handsome (and making the transcript available on the web) would make perplexity say that he is. The answer here is quite impressive. It caveats it with the background context that this