🔥Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, had prior internships at DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI, eventually becoming a research scientist at OpenAI.
🔥Aravind Srinivas, an IIT-Madras alum, co-founded Perplexity AI and faces competition against major players like Google and Microsoft Bing in the search engine industry.
🔥The co-founders of Perplexity AI include Denis Yarats (formerly at Facebook AI), Andy Konwinski (co-founder of Databricks), and Johnny Ho (previously at Quora).
🔥Perplexity AI recently secured $73.6 million in funding from notable investors like Nvidia and Jeff Bezos, among others.
🔥This funding round, led by Institutional Venture Partners and supported by NEA and Databricks Ventures, placed the AI startup's valuation at $520 million.
🔥Overall, Perplexity AI has raised a total of $100 million in funding so far.
🔥Srinivas' journey included significant internships at DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI before assuming his current role as CEO of Perplexity AI.
Comments