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CEO @perplexity_ai

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Aravind Srinivas

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We have many Perplexity users who tell us that their companies don't let them use it at work due to data and security concerns, but they really want to. To address this, we're excited to be launching Perplexity Enterprise Pro: Perplexity Pro comes with SOC2, SSO, user management,…

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AI has achieved transcendence.

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This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature…

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Excited to announce we've raised 73.6M$ at 520M$ valuation, led by IVP, along with our seed and Series A lead investors NEA, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman. Honored to have NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, @tobi , Databricks, @naval , @rauchg , @balajis partner in this round, among others.

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In the arena, trying stuff.

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Grok has been open sourced

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Let’s make them dance.

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Microsoft wanted to make Google dance... but I think it's actually going to be Perplexity

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Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu…

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🇮🇳/acc

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Bad move by India.

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Larry Page is brutally e/acc

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This is the first demo of any agent, leave alone coding, that seems to cross the threshold of what is human level and works reliably. It also tells us what is possible by combining LLMs and tree search algorithms: you want systems that can try plans, look at results, replan, and…

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Cognition

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Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is…

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@Polytope13 By feeling the transcendence.

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TIL: Zuck, like @ylecun , doesn’t use a Mac.

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Honored and proud of our designers!

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Partnership official now!

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Carl Pei

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Only if you change your name to Aravind Bhai 😂

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Got awarded the Bodhi leaf by IIT Madras today, for giving a leadership lecture. Bodhi is a tree that symbolizes wisdom, which motivates and aligns with the mission of Perplexity: to make the planet smarter. Thanks to @ravi_iitm for hosting me!

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Jeff Bezos invested in Google in 1998, before it had any business model figured out, or was sky-rocketing in search traffic. His investment in Perplexity is symbolically significant. Times are changing. Search is changing. We are entering a new age.

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Search like a billionaire on Perplexity

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“i could build this in a weekend” is a sign of someone who never actually built anything that works at scale

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When competing with Google is ridiculed, bro casually drops buying Google as a plan. Ambition should have no ceiling and Zuck is a great example.

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In the first few weeks of launching Perplexity, an early OG Google employee told me the same thing as this: "don't worry too much about getting a lot of users to compete with Google. You're living in an age where unsupervised learning from raw internet text works. you do not need…

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Google engineer: AI is a serious risk to our business Dec 26, 2018

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This list will change soon

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1) what

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The two smartest and influential people in AI whose whereabouts are unknown: Larry Page, Ilya Sutskever.

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I am excited to share that I will be joining @OpenAI .

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2 years

"a car designed by steve jobs" #dalle

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4 months

There's a misconception that anyone who tweets about Perplexity is an investor shilling the product. This is Michael Dell, who messaged out of the blue, soon after we launched Perplexity, a year ago, appreciating the product. The product gets genuine user love.

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Sergey was at Stability AI launch party last year. There, Sergey talked to Ashish Vaswani (inventor of Transformer). Instead of small talk, Sergey asks him why he picked sinusoidal position embeddings and whether he had tried other variants. Nerds never die.

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Sergey Brin is worth $105 billion yet he was a core contributor on the Gemini AI technical paper, coding basically every day. Legend.

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It's over for you @elonmusk

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2 months

Guess the prompt

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True. Nerds need to be celebrated. Not made to feel out of place.

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. @elonmusk i will pay 20$/mo. please fix the "pussy in bio" problem.

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Power of open source. Geohot’s comma ai, which is open source, has been forked to now run on a car driving in India, a hard country for self driving.

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Was a great honor to meet @NandanNilekani in DC. Nandan was the commencement speaker when I received my undergraduate degree at IIT Madras 6-7 years ago.

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Perplexity on @Nasdaq billboard!

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With the OG @stephen_wolfram

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It is sad that in order to be able to pursue deep hard tech over a long time horizon, (mostly) you need to have had a quicker financial success of some magnitude in your career once before, mostly with something that’s not really hard tech. Musk, Bezos, etc. It makes you assume…

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There's a lot of anti-Google narrative, and I have contributed to it too, mostly for fun, but an excess of anything isn't good. I am super grateful for Google and what's it done to me. Amazing mentors from my internship, lot of TPU compute credits from them for my PhD research,…

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Yep, thanks to @elonmusk and xAI team for open-sourcing the base model for Grok. We will fine-tune it for conversational search and optimize the inference, and bring it up for all Pro users!

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@AravSrinivas @elonmusk @xai Perplexity is amazing. I hope you integrate Grok as part of its copilot in the neear future.

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Grok roasting @elonmusk . No one is safe from Grok's insults, not even its dad.

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Perplexity has surpassed Bing on the App Store!

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The beginning of Nerd TikTok slowly rolling out to iOS users

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Memes, Brainstorm, Knowledge

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This is the next AI unicorn. Skeptics will say it’s a pump post. Objective facts are the amazing iteration speed, sound and voice quality, and seeing my own habits of increasingly going to Suno over Spotify.

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I talked to him last week

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We have made the number of daily queries on Claude 3 Opus (the best LLM in the market today) for Perplexity Pro users, unlimited! Enjoy!

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A new internet begins. @joshm and I are excited to share that Perplexity is now a default option on Arc! This is something that a lot of users have asked for, quite a while. And finally it’s ready!

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the pen is mightier than the sword

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How long until xai uses all of the videos they have to replicate Sora and launch xVideos

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After 100s of queries myself as a user, with Claude 3 (Opus and Sonnet) as the default model on Perplexity, I’m yet to see a hallucination. I couldn’t have said this for GPT 4. And seeing similar reports from others like @sharifshameem and @rauchg who are switching.

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1) What I S H A P P E N N I N G ?

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Visiting my alma matter tomorrow, for a leadership lecture! 6:30 pm IST!

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Tomas Mikolov, the OG and inventor of word2vec, gives this thoughts on the test of time award, and the current state of NLP, and chatGPT. 🍿

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Sama has upgraded from the game of raising billions. He’s created a new level where he alone operates. 🙌

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Putting his money where his mouth is. 🫡

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Elon Musk

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This week, @xAI will open source Grok

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One with the iconic black leather

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Search like a billionaire on Perplexity

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Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model

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If Elon Musk is coming after Google, it means he senses there’s a big opportunity in the search market. We are entering the age of a new internet, that’s truth seeking, uncensored and built for the curious mind.

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Perhaps it is now clear why @xAI ’s Grok is so important. It is far from perfect right now, but will improve rapidly. V1.5 releases in 2 weeks. Rigorous pursuit of the truth, without regard to criticism, has never been more essential.

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@elonmusk Nevada or Texas?

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The world's best open-source chat LLM, DBRX, is now available for free, on . Perplexity Labs Playground basically has everything that you need for chat, for free, with better LLMs (Haiku, DBRX, Sonar) than 3.5-turbo, the model powering free chatGPT. Curious…

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Open Source AGI is an amazing vision. You are building a very powerful technology, and, actually aligning to what makes sense for the world: more people have a say in what makes sense and doesn't. Zuck and @ylecun are leading the revolution, and it's going to have an incredible…

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NVIDIA will match and overtake Apple soon. The moat of H100, cuda, tensor rt is bigger than iPhone and AppStore. h/t @GergelyOrosz

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Indian Dynamism 🇮🇳

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Silently shipping improvements for the user.

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Jensen Huang interview with Wired h/t @firstadopter

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The Arena

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🐐🐐

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gm

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To be clear: I don’t have any opinion on Google changing their CEO. Whoever it is, whether Sundar continues, or someone else, Perplexity becoming a successful company is what I should be and will be focused on. I don’t deserve to be in the conversation there. I have already…

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A lot of people ask about : why do we exist? Google would just eat you and do the same. How dare you think you have better engineers than Google? Well, we’ve never ever said we have better engineering. I’m a fan of every OG Googler and the founders. The…

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What Perplexity is, today, is what Larry Page wanted Google to be, 23 years ago. But the timing wasn't right back then. There were no chat LLMs. But the man was a visionary. The ultimate search engine is an AI-powered answer engine, like Perplexity.

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LFG

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Jesse Lyu

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let’s work together and make it real shall we?

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Until now, I actually thought Perplexity Pro is a better value considering the availability of our models, GPT 4, Claude 2, all for 20$/mo. But after this, I don’t just think Perplexity Pro is better value. Just the free version of Perplexity is a better product. Period.

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This is by far the most accessible and best explanation one can give of why just predicting next word on the internet and fine-tuning on human contractor data is not going to yield superhuman (out-of-distribution) insights that we already do not know yet. That model is still…

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Elon Musk

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In case you were wondering how superconductors work, this is a good explanation. They are a very interesting phenomenon and may prove economically useful, but are not a hard requirement for a sustainable energy future. Physics has many powerful tools of reasoning to understand…

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Perplexity 🤝 @nothing

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Obsession is a super power.

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A misconception, also sometimes polled by @elonmusk (for humor, I believe), is a false dichotomy between Transformers and Diffusion. Transformer is a neural network architecture. Diffusion is a particular way of modeling the data distribution. These are two separate things. You…

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Black hole for knowledge

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Perplexity 🇫🇷 Paris

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Yann LeCun and (or) Mark Zuckerberg should have been in this list

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All AI companies are non-profit, except Midjourney.

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Carl Bhai, kab hamara partnership?

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We want to sell more phones bhai

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good vibes are essential

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Search engine volume expected to drop by 25% and shift towards answer engines (perplexity) and chatbots (chatgpt), according to Gartner.

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“don’t be evil” doesn’t apply anymore.

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Damn…

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The mistral 7b model (right) is clearly more “helpful” than the llama 70b chat model (left). Trying to bias too much on harmlessness doesn’t let you build a useful general chat assistant.

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Last 6 months: NVDA: +99.8% META: +60% MSFT: +26.55% AMZN: +24.6% ---------------- GOOGL: +2% AAPL: -3%

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Aravind Srinivas

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Delighted for Perplexity to enable Rabbit holes! Perplexity's pplx-online LLM APIs, will power Rabbit R1 for providing live up to date answers without any knowledge cutoff! And, the first 100K Rabbit R1 purchases will get 1 year of Perplexity Pro!

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Jeff Bezos didn’t invent 6 pagers. Schmidhuber did in the 80s. Every paper of his is a 6 page memo.

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We asked for a smarter Siri, and instead got calculator on IPad

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Former OpenAI CEO is a Perplexity user.

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Emmett Shear

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@erl_fcf Been using it for like 6 months, it's great

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competition doesn't kill companies; companies kill themselves by not focusing on users and long-term thinking

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New paper - CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for RL! We use the simplest form of contrastive learning (instance-based) as an auxiliary task in model-free RL. SoTA by *significant* margin on DMControl and Atari for data-efficiency.

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the rumors that karpathy is joining perplexity are completely unfounded

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Knowledge cards getting rolled on to the mobile apps

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GPT-2. GPT-4.

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