Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war
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Summary
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI startup Perplexity and a longtime Google veteran, revealed details around his company’s upcoming browser, Comet, and Motorola’s new Razr phones, which will include Perplexity as a pre-installed assistant.
Srinivas talked about the difficulties of battling Google, the potential of browser-based agents, building an iOS assistant that controls other apps, his conversations about running TikTok, and the competition with ChatGPT and memory.
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