Aravind Srinivas

Cofounder & CEO, Perplexity

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Aravind Srinivas is the Cofounder and CEO of Perplexity in San Francisco, California, with a background in C++, Machine Learning, Python, and Algorithms. With a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a dual degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, he has held roles at prestigious organizations like OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind, showcasing his expertise in research and technology development.

Work Experience 

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Perplexity

  • Cofounder, CEO

    2022 - Current

    Fastest way to get answers to any question

Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.

Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.

perplexity.ai

Aravind Srinivas

  • Angel Investor

    2023

    Eleven Labs (AI Voices), Mistral (AI Foundation Models), Cognition Labs (AI Software Engineer), Cursor (AI-first Code Editor), Pika Labs (AI Videos), Suno (AI Music), Cartesia (Real Time Multimodal AI), Friend (AI companion wearable), Julius (AI Data Scientist), Tako (Data & Knowledge Graph for AI), LiveKit (RTC API for multimodal AI), MixedBread (Embeddings for RAG), Extropic (AI Hardware), Udio (AI Music Generator), Antimetal (AI to optimize cloud costs), Ray (AI Fitness Coach), Silurian (AI for Weather Prediction), Fal AI (Multimodal Generative AI Inference)

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OpenAI

  • Research Scientist

    2021 - 2022

    Research on language and diffusion generative models.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.

Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.

openai.com
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Google

  • Research Intern

    2020 - 2021

    Transformers for Vision: Bottleneck Transformers, HaloNet SoTA Vision Models: Copy-Paste Augmentation, ResNet-RS.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com
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DeepMind

  • Research Intern

    2019 - 2019

    Large-Scale Contrastive Learning: CPCv2.

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OpenAI

  • Research Intern

    2018 - 2018

    Research on Policy Gradient Algorithms.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.

Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.

openai.com

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