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Aravind Srinivas
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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.
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AI has achieved transcendence.
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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
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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.
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I am not in Tihar Jail right now
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Nick Speer – 🇺🇸/🚀
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@balajis @ArvindKejriwal please keep perplexity as unbiased possible 🙏 and be wary of biased LLMs
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New Perplexity Office!
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In the arena, trying stuff.
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Grok has been open sourced
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@AravSrinivas
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Let’s make them dance.
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Microsoft wanted to make Google dance... but I think it's actually going to be Perplexity
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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
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🇮🇳/acc
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@AravSrinivas
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King Kohli
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Heisenberg's Certainty Principle
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@AravSrinivas
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Bad move by India.
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Happy Independence Day to all Indians! 🇮🇳
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Larry Page is brutally e/acc
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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
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Cognition
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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
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@Polytope13 By feeling the transcendence.
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Excited to be partnering with @SoftBank to grow Perplexity in Japan!
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the app that keeps on giving
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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
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TIL: Zuck, like @ylecun , doesn’t use a Mac.
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Even Musk takes Ls. Keep at it. 💪
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Honored and proud of our designers!
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6 months
Partnership official now!
@getpeid
Carl Pei
6 months
Only if you change your name to Aravind Bhai 😂
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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.
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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!
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Search like a billionaire on Perplexity
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“i could build this in a weekend” is a sign of someone who never actually built anything that works at scale
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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
@TechEmails
Internal Tech Emails
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Google engineer: AI is a serious risk to our business Dec 26, 2018
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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
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When competing with Google is ridiculed, bro casually drops buying Google as a plan. Ambition should have no ceiling and Zuck is a great example.
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This list will change soon
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The first Perplexity commercial aired today in the NBA Finals Game 1 :-)
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Your jobs are safe folks
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1) what
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@AravSrinivas
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The two smartest and influential people in AI whose whereabouts are unknown: Larry Page, Ilya Sutskever.
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@AravSrinivas
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3 years
I am excited to share that I will be joining @OpenAI .
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@AravSrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
9 days
Like this post if you want a Desktop App for Perplexity
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Niral Patel
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beautiful interface by macos ChatGPT ngl, the window stays floating over anything. u should steal this @perplexity_ai @AravSrinivas
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2 years
"a car designed by steve jobs" #dalle
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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.
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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.
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@AravSrinivas
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Don't be evil
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@AravSrinivas
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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.
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Linas Beliūnas
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Sergey Brin is worth $105 billion yet he was a core contributor on the Gemini AI technical paper, coding basically every day. Legend.
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It's over for you @elonmusk
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True. Nerds need to be celebrated. Not made to feel out of place.
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Power of open source. Geohot’s comma ai, which is open source, has been forked to now run on a car driving in India, a hard country for self driving.
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Guess the prompt
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. @elonmusk i will pay 20$/mo. please fix the "pussy in bio" problem.
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@AravSrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
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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.
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Perplexity on @Nasdaq billboard!
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Amazing to see India in top 5. The gap between 1&2 and the rest is still high but India can only move up from here.
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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
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With the OG @stephen_wolfram
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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,
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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!
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@AravSrinivas @elonmusk @xai Perplexity is amazing. I hope you integrate Grok as part of its copilot in the neear future.
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Grok roasting @elonmusk . No one is safe from Grok's insults, not even its dad.
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Perplexity has surpassed Bing on the App Store!
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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.
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The beginning of Nerd TikTok slowly rolling out to iOS users
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Memes, Brainstorm, Knowledge
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Interesting slide from Deepmind that ChatGPT is a local minimum on the path to AGI
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@Hersh_Desai
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Click here to skip the waitlist >>
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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!
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I talked to him last week
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We have made the number of daily queries on Claude 3 Opus (the best LLM in the market today) for Perplexity Pro users, unlimited! Enjoy!
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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.
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Steps to set Perplexity as your default search engine on chrome
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How long until xai uses all of the videos they have to replicate Sora and launch xVideos
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the pen is mightier than the sword
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Networking ~= Not actually working
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Reads with Ravi
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“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge.” — @naval
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1) What I S H A P P E N N I N G ?
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Visiting my alma matter tomorrow, for a leadership lecture! 6:30 pm IST!
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Some legendary businesses start as simple wrappers
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Tomas Mikolov, the OG and inventor of word2vec, gives this thoughts on the test of time award, and the current state of NLP, and chatGPT. 🍿
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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!
@lexfridman
Lex Fridman
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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
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Sama has upgraded from the game of raising billions. He’s created a new level where he alone operates. 🙌
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Putting his money where his mouth is. 🫡
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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This week, @xAI will open source Grok
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One with the iconic black leather
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Search like a billionaire on Perplexity
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The king is back. Exciting!
@ilyasut
Ilya Sutskever
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I am starting a new company:
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Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model
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@elonmusk Nevada or Texas?
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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.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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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.
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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
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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
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NVIDIA will match and overtake Apple soon. The moat of H100, cuda, tensor rt is bigger than iPhone and AppStore. h/t @GergelyOrosz
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Silently shipping improvements for the user.
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Indian Dynamism 🇮🇳
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Praise from Seth Godin for Perplexity
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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).
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It is interesting how Singapore, a country, thinks about itself as a product, and the leader optimizes for new user retention.
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Jensen Huang interview with Wired h/t @firstadopter
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Big win for Google in its competition with OpenAI on scaling and infrastructure.
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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?
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The Arena
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Claude 3.5 is now available on Perplexity Pro. In our international evaluations, it’s outperformed GPT 4o. Try it out!
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@perplexity_ai
Perplexity
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🚨 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.
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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
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