Aravind Srinivas was a prodigy from the start.
Growing up in Chennai, cricket statistics sparked his love for numbers.
After ranking among top students at IIT Madras, he earned his PhD at Berkeley and landed rare internships at elite AI labs: • Google Brain • DeepMind • OpenAI
At OpenAI in 2018, Aravind presented his research to Ilya Sutskever.
After just 30 seconds, Ilya delivered a brutal truth: "You're wrong. All your ideas are useless."
Ilya then drew two circles: • A big one labeled "generative AI" • A small one inside labeled "reinforcement learning"
"This is AI," Ilya said. "The only thing that remains is to throw a lot of compute at it."
This was years before ChatGPT existed.
Aravind was stunned. Complex ideas dismissed for something so simple.
This moment changed his perspective: Simple ideas often work better than complex ones, especially with massive computing power.
In 2022, Aravind co-founded Perplexity AI.
Rather than building another academic project, he focused on something practical: making information accessible.
Perplexity delivers answers with sources, not just links.
While many chase complex solutions, Aravind focused on solving real user problems.
Today, Perplexity is valued at over $500 million.
When Aravind speaks about AI today, he emphasizes: "It's not about the fanciest algorithms. It's about building something people trust."
We're currently in the infrastructure phase of AI.
Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are building the foundations of what's possible.
They will survive when the AI bubble bursts because 99% of AI startups are built on this foundation.
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For AI to achieve mass adoption, we need use cases that feel natural - like how we don't think about electricity when using it.
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