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Aravind Srinivas

Aravind Srinivas

Cofounder, President, CEO / Perplexity

Aravind Srinivas is the Cofounder, President, and CEO of Perplexity, an AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, sourced answers to user queries. Prior to founding Perplexity, he was a Research Scientist at OpenAI and held research intern positions at Google and DeepMind. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Dual Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
United States
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$18B - $20B
Perplexity Valuation
10M
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Career

Perplexity
Perplexity

Cofounder, President, CEO

Aug 2022 - Present
Responsibilities
Fastest way to get answers to any question
Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas

Angel Investor

Jan 2023 - Present
Responsibilities
Cursor, Eleven Labs, Suno, Mistral, Cognition, Lovable, Fal AI, Pika, LiveKit
OpenAI
OpenAI

Research Scientist

Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Responsibilities
Research on language and diffusion generative models.
Google
Google

Research Intern

May 2020 - Apr 2021
Responsibilities
Transformers for Vision: Bottleneck Transformers, Local Self-Attention
DeepMind
DeepMind

Research Intern

May 2019 - Sep 2019
Responsibilities
Large-Scale Contrastive Learning: CPCv2.
OpenAI
OpenAI

Research Intern

May 2018 - Aug 2018
Responsibilities
Research on Policy Gradient Algorithms.

Education

University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

2021
Field of Study
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD - Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech)

2017
Field of Study
Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) - Electrical Engineering

Skills

Core technical and professional competencies inferred from his background at OpenAI, Google, DeepMind, and leading Perplexity.

Technical & AI Research
Large Language Models (LLMs)Generative AIMachine LearningDeep LearningComputer Vision
Leadership & Business
Startup LeadershipProduct VisionStrategic PlanningVenture Capital InvestmentTeam Building

Domains

Primary Focus

Artificial Intelligence, Conversational Search, Large Language Models, Generative AI

Secondary Focus

Venture Capital, Technology Startups, Software Development, Internet Services

Tags

Personality

Visionary, Entrepreneurial, Innovative, Data-Driven, Technical Leader

Focus

Future of Search, AI Ethics, Disruptive Technology, Global Impact

Audience Metrics

Gender

Male 65.7%, Female 34.3%

Age Distribution

25-34 (64.5%), 35-54 (17.8%), 18-24 (12.4%)

Top Countries

US (13.1%), BR (11.7%), IR (8.6%), IN (7.0%)

Top Cities

Tehran (2.7%), Baghdad (2.2%), New York (1.5%)

Social Metrics

Instagram

followers

Twitter/X

327.0K followers

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