"[MUSIC] Aravind, welcome to Stanford. >> Thank you for having me. I'm from Berkeley, so hopefully you don't mind >> [LAUGH] >> At least wanted to represent with the blue. >> [LAUGH] >> But it's great ..."

">> Thank you. >> Now to get started figured I would turn to perplexity to help me craft my questions. So let's take a look at what it said. So to get started, I figured I would put this prompt into pe..."

"How does that sound? >> Sounds good? >> [LAUGH] I thought that sounded like a pretty good outline, but I figured we could get just a little more personal. So, I thought I would test out my follow-up p..."

">> More than you think. >> [LAUGH] >> So this generated some more interesting insights than my initial prompt, including, here's the very detailed list, but I'll just hit on a few of them. First, I le..."

"I'll spare you the video. But Aravind, is there something in the water in Chennai that's led to so many successful tech entrepreneurs? >> Well, I think, it's interesting more than, I'm sure lot of peo..."

"other parts of the US. I feel that it's a very common trait. And obviously, this cricket thing is there. And one thing China is known for is they call the cricket nerds they really obsess about all th..."

">> So knowledge over wealth and attend cricket games. >> Yeah. >> So, it'll take away from that one. Now you left India to pursue your PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley, not Stanford, unfortunate..."

"So after I wrote a paper or two, they told me this concept of citations. And so that matters is not necessarily you getting a paper accepted. It's that other people have to cite and build on it. That'..."

"And once I learned that, I kind of obsessed about citations. And, I also learned that was the core inspiration for the Google search engine of how academic citation graph to like marrying that idea to..."

"roots help me in perplexity. >> Now I know perplexity is academic focus feature has been a key driver of adoption here at Stanford, and lets you cite only academic journals. >> Yeah. >> In your resear..."

"wanted and get an instant answer >> Where knowledge begins. >> Yeah, exactly. >> I love that. Now I want to go back to the genesis of perplexity. To tackle such a big problem, you needed a great team...."

"one of my co-founders Dennis during my PhD days. This is also where the academic background helps you a lot, you learn people who are very motivated and deep thinkers. And so we wrote the same paper, ..."

"Johnny were my core founding team. And I would say Johnny was world number one at competitive programming, he represented the United States at the IOI. And those who are aware of competitive programmi..."

"So and then over time, you try to hire more and more people who can bring in new skills. Obviously, none of the three of us have front end programming skills, so we hired someone really good at the fu..."

"And one example I can give is our design team was very well known too, but none of the founding team had that design quality. So we went and hired someone specifically for that, where that person actu..."

"going to launch Bing and this is almost like a Silicon Valley story, the TV show kind of story where we were at the office of NEA. And we hand shook on a set of terms there and then I went to Blue Bot..."

"We saw the Microsoft thing, don't worry about it. You figure out a way, So we're not going to back out of the deal, you keep going. So that gave us a lot of confidence and I felt like that was very cr..."

"So we were already in New York at the time, so we just basically camped in front of his office for multiple hours. >> [LAUGH] >> And he went for lunch, and he was like, yeah, you guys are waiting. Oka..."

"Should these companies be training their own models, or should they be using APIs? And we had a conviction that, number one, models are going to get increasingly commoditized, and if you do want to be..."

"And the level of intelligence and reasoning is also going up. And open source is keeping a check on these closed source models and bringing the price down. It's a perfect time to be an application com..."

">> What should you build yourself and when can you leverage things that already exist. >> Yeah. >> It's a great strategy. Now, you've been openly critical of Google's over-reliance on advertising. And..."

"So that is an ad unit that we are experimenting with, and we're working with a few brands who are willing to try it out. First of all, the major concern is, right now for brands, they're afraid how th..."

"community. And we also made grants to Northwestern University to kind of do more research on how tools like ours can help journalists write better, because all journalists do fact checks, and we are a..."

">> I would say if we can help people get answers to all their questions and get help for all their tasks we'll be in that league for sure. And we're getting pretty close to being a reliable answer mac..."

"But at some point, definitely, we're going to hit the problems of scale and how to move fast. So I'm determined to solve that problem and if whatever final solution I come up with, I hope it's helpful..."

"based on what other people tell you, and it's very essential that you're as close as possible to the source of truth. So when people complain on social platforms like Twitter or this thing's not worki..."

"assistants, personal assistants. And I remember in 2018, when I was an intern at OpenAI, Sam Altman did this fireside chat with Bill Gates. And he asked Bill Gates, what do you think the world would l..."

"I feel like it helped me, is waking up late was something I stopped doing. So- >> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, I think it makes me feel like I get more hours in the day. And so that also means going to bed early...."

"risk or challenge that you feel the company is facing? >> Sorry, could you repeat that? >> What do you think is the biggest risk or challenge that you feel the company is facing today? >> Yeah, I thin..."

"surrounding some of those issues, and I imagine that as a leader in those spaces, you spend a lot of time thinking about that. I'm curious how you've approached ethical issues, whose opinions you seek..."

"perceiving something, right? When there is even a sign of war or it's foggy around there, feels something my bad might happen, the first thing you got to do is make a phone call and talk. So that's wh..."