"You have to innovate. You have to move faster than everybody else. And it's like running a marathon but at an extremely high velocity. Right. The only uh mode you have is speed. I read all the Twitter..."

"definitely a lot of people in the world using it. Thanks to all of you as well. What is next for us? The browser. That's the big bet we're making as as far as the future of the company goes. Everyone'..."

"cognitive operating system rather than just yet another browser and we hope to make it like a cloud where you launch several tasks in parallel that are running asynchronously Okay. And pulling all you..."

"to expect them to do it. And the only uh mode you have is speed. You have to innovate. You have to move faster than everybody else. And it's like running a marathon but at an extremely high velocity r..."

"a CEO? There are a lot of people who would think otherwise. Recently people are like uh oh like like there I hope this behavior is rubbing off on others. Like I've noticed even Sundar is doing bug sup..."

"Yeah, that's awesome. Um, okay. So, you launched this first version of Perplexity, which is largely to like do Twitter search effectively. Um, at what point did it like start to work and you maybe int..."

"we did is like we dreamt bigger and said what if we just give answers and site the relevant sources. We launched that as a discord bot and that was also continually being used. It was not like a one-d..."

"slow. Took seven seconds to answer for a query at the time. And um it was making a lot of mistakes, hallucinations and like a no-name company, no-name founder, very one or two million dollars in seed ..."

"why do I have to build bar like why not just do it on Google right where you you have all the distribution in the world so why do you have to build a separate product like just just update your core m..."

"reversal of the situation thanks to open AI or anthropic or open source models. So that plus innovator dilemma plus the fact that we could make a lot of mistakes and it's fine. Whereas for Google, one..."

"really have a focus on the user experience and and you told me how you kind of learned that from Larry Page. Yeah. By reading the book about uh Google. Um why do you think Google has lost that ability..."

"just ask the AI apps and there are a bunch of AI assistants and the phone makers will start offering all of them as alternatives. It's not going to be like a locked in default search option. So, I'm r..."

"why I I really want to like um push the company more on the browser side and I think comet the browser will be an abstraction layer above chat bots. I you could even imagine like I you know if you per..."

"browser enables for you. And putting it into like mobile like like building mobile versions of this browser is going to be very hard like just engineering wise it's going to take many months. So I'm n..."

"You can schedule your meetings. uh you can reply to some of your emails that you don't even want to read. You can like for example let's say you're hosting a Y cominator event and you say I only want ..."

"I mean, you you don't want to wipe code everything, right? Like like like we frequently run into infra issues and you don't want a wipe coder right there fixing it on live things on production like I ..."

"of all these tools, but it is also introducing new bugs and many people don't know how to fix them and they don't even know how the bug got introduced and they have to go find it again. So it's not pe..."

"and keep building. Uh so brand is important. uh narrative is very important to the brand like you have to communicate to people why do you even need to exist for us it's the focus on accuracy okay let..."

"effect like like it's not like WhatsApp where if you build a WhatsApp rival meta has a definitely like a questionable brand right like people don't necessarily trust Meta's products they think like th..."

"What does that look like do you think in the future? like does perplexity do deals with all the airlines in the world and all the hotels and all the e-commerce providers? So we we already work with se..."

"vision. If you commit entirely to MCP vision, you require these third party MCP servers to work reliably. Uh the data that they send you uh on with the MCP protocol has to be perfect. Your chatbot has..."

"Google. Number two, I think the subscription revenue is like really encouraging. We never expected to get this far and then we think like we can grow at least, you know, a few billions a year in just ..."

"money as Google. Yeah. I Google Google's business model is potentially the best business model ever. Ever. So, yeah, it's fair to not. Maybe it was so good that you needed AI to kill it basically. All..."

"going. Well, you guys are the perfect example of how it's possible to go up against somebody as big as Google. That's great. All right, let's do some Q&A. We'll start on the left side here. Go for it...."

"Thank you. Uh hallucinations is something we we really care about. We we're building benchmarks internally uh to keep up to date with that. The only way there is to keep building a better search index..."

"All right. Hey Arvin, my name is Akshad. Uh so in a recent interview with Nikl Kamat, he asked you for an internship at Perplexity. So I was just wondering how that um arrangement is going. He he came..."

"this bug has popped up, how do you get through that and what do you think your biggest motivational factor is in that realm? Or maybe like at the beginning before it started to take off, what gave you..."

"visits, but those who are trying to game the SEO system and trying to get traffic, I think they're definitely going to have a harder time. Okay. Yeah. Hi Rean, good afternoon. Uh firstly, where do you..."

"right? like like if if there are questions about the origins of co and there's so many different opinions of that relying a lot on Wikipedia as a source and and you know can say maybe for a human raid..."