LIMITLESS: Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO’s All-In Gamble to Take Down Google
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Comet is basically call it browser the speed of thought. So we all have, like, a lot of thoughts while we're on the browser, and we don't get to actually finish all of them because every every task that we have in our head takes a lot of time. So Comet is meant to unify Perplexity and the browser in a very native way, where Perplexity evolves from just giving you answers to performing actions for you. And Perplexity from just pulling context from the web to pulling all context.
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Thank you for having me.
Aravind, we wanna learn something from you. We generally understand on Limitless that the future is going to be very different from what it looks like today, most likely starting with the Internet. So we wanna hear how you think the Internet will be different in, you know, five five years and how that thesis of yours has informed your leadership of your company perplexity.
It's never easy to imagine the world like five years from now, even in normal circumstances. And we live in like a pretty different world where AI is advancing at a pace that we're just not used to. So I would be lying if I said I I I really know how the world's gonna look like five or so, and I actually don't think anybody really does. Because it's it's so hard to work around scenarios where the capabilities of AI are constantly evolving every few months. Three three months before, all the agentic capabilities were chain of actions and chain of tool calls were not reliable. We're not like, li
Go into that a little bit more, curiosity as a leading human drive for how we will navigate the Internet? Why why is curiosity so important and and maybe what will human curiosity look different when we have all these amazing tools at our disposal?
So I think the world has more AI than the amount of skill required to make use of it today. Right? Most AIs are pretty good. Like, yes, there are mistakes being made by all these AIs, hallucinations, sometimes chatbots are too psychophantic. They're not able to reliably complete tasks. Yes. But keep even the current state at which it can write code for you, build websites for you, do your research for you, answer whatever questions you have is already incredible. But compared to the amount of people using it on a daily basis, it's not as high. Most people are still doing work in the traditiona
I love the way you frame the internet and AI as a vehicle to pursue cur
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