Playing God with AGI on Instagram: "Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, used a borrowed laptop and cloud credits to build the first prototype. Perplexity launched in 2022 as a conversational search engine challenging Google and ChatGPT, and by late 2025 it hit a $20 billion valuation with backing from Jeff Bezos, Nvidia and SoftBank. With limited resources, the café became his office. Those early papers and experiments helped him attract top mentors and ultimately build Perple

10x AI Engineer on Instagram: "Perplexity CEO on why they didn't build their own Al model Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, made a contrarian bet. Instead of spending billions training their own Al model, Perplexity chose to build an Al application business. Why? Because Al models are getting commoditized. Open-source models are improving fast. API costs are falling - some estimates say 10-100x cheaper in the next few years. So the real advantage is no longer owning the model, it's about: use