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Aravind Srinivas: belief

19 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #434 – Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet

“Now I think he has this mentality that it all has to be in-house, but it frees you from working on problems that you don’t need to be working on when you’re scaling up your startup.”

— Aravind Srinivas

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Aravind Srinivas
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belief
Recorded
19 Jun 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Although famously, as Elon has talked about, they seem to have used a disparate collection of data centers. Now I think he has this mentality that it all has to be in-house, but it frees you from working on problems that you don’t need to be working on when you’re scaling up your startup. Also, AWS infrastructure is amazing. It’s not just amazing in terms of its quality. It also helps you to recruit engineers easily, because if you’re on AWS and all engineers are already trained on using AWS, so the speed at which they can ramp up is amazing. So does Perplexity use AWS?…

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