How Perplexity Works 🤖 - with Denis Yarats

Today's guest is Denis Yarats.
Denis is co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, one of my favorite products and one of the most successful AI startups today. Perplexity was founded less than two years ago and has just raised $250M in venture capital, at a $2B+ evaluation.
With Denis, we talked about the state of AI products and his vision of where they're going. Then we talked about Perplexity as a company, how the team is organized, how engineers work, and how they use AI themselves.
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I am sorry for the bad audio quality on my side 🙏 the recording picked up the wrong mic and we realized it only during editing 🙏
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Here is what we talked about:
(02:04) Introduction
(03:08) The History of Perplexity
(09:35) Startup and AI costs
(12:14) The proper AI model
(14:47) Open vs Proprietary Source
(15:51) Is AI evolution saturated?
(17:07) How Perplexity uses AI
(18:49) Perplexity Engineering team
(21:48) Trials, teams and management
(28:17) Startup planning
(31:53) Team structure
(33:33) Developing procedures
(37:35) Perplexity's "secret sauce"
(40:31) Metrics in Perplexity
(44:38) Perplexity's future
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[@JeffVoss-b9n]

Ah, the real genius behind perplexity

[@delunedelune7777]

Hi Denis. Can you suggest which one to choose?
Which one would be better in researching; for sending a big list of people (either as a text file or as text) from which one tells me who of all listed plays tennis? Chat GPT, Perplexity, or some other?
Thank you!

[@JuanManuelGarrido]

Nice!