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Srinivas Louis (in picture) was arrested on Monday from his rented accommodation in Mysuru. (IANS) NEW DELHI: A 47-year-old man from Mysuru, accused of sending over 1,000 hoax emails targeting courts, government offices and schools across India — and even beyond — was driven by a deep personal grievance against the judicial system, Delhi Police…
Venture capitalist David Sacks has now pushed back against the reports linking Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael’s investment in Perplexity AI to the government’s move against Anthropic. According to a report by Bending, speaking on the All-In Podcast, Sacks called the allegations a ‘smear campaign’, arguing that Perplexity is not a direct competitor to…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas credits Sam Altman’s advice – ‘pursue what comes easy to you but is hard for others’ – for his AI success. A brute-force win in an undergraduate data science contest, despite lacking formal training, solidified his natural aptitude. This intuition, rather than credentials, propelled him to co-found the $9 billion…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas (R) As tech leaders are warning about mass unemployment due to AI, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is now offering a more optimistic view. According to a report by Fortune, speaking on the AII-In podcast recoded at the recent Nvidia GTC event, Srinivas argued that AI-driven layoffs should not be feared,…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who once offered $34.5 billion for Google Chrome, now defaults Google search on his company’s Comet iOS browser. He acknowledges Google’s superiority for everyday navigational queries, while Comet aims to enhance answer quality and multimodal capabilities. This pragmatic approach positions Comet as a complementary tool, not a direct competitor, to Google….
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, added his weight to a growing conversation about what AI is doing to software engineering. On March 13, he quote-tweeted a post by physics and AI/ML student @TheVixhal with two words: “Well said.” The original post, which racked up 15,000-plus likes and nearly a million views, argued that LLMs…
AR Rahman has shared insights from his personal interactions with two of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas. During an appearance on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s People by WTF podcast, the music legend said that he has spent a lot of time with…
The highly anticipated wedding of cricketer Smriti Mandhana and musician-filmmaker Palash Muchhal, set for November 23 in Sangli, was unexpectedly called off after Smriti’s father, Srinivas Mandhana, suffered a heart-related medical issue.Now, Palash’s mother Amita Muchhal has spoken publicly for the first time, revealing the emotional turmoil both families went through — and how Palash…
MapmyIndia has invited Perplexity AI to collaborate following a statement by the startup’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, about the challenges of recreating products like Google Maps. The domestic digital mapping company shared its invitation to Srinivas in a recent post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where it wrote: “Like we’ve proudly partnered with…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is once again promoting the company’s newly launched Comet AI browser to end Google’s dominance on the internet. In a post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the Indian-origin CEO of the AI startup shared a short clip of the new Comet browser that Perplexity launched last month and…
