Perplexity AI CEO Pans Google’s AI Rollout and Assistant Product
Perplexity AI’s Chief Govt Officer Aravind Srinivas issued a broadside towards Google’s Synthetic Intelligence (AI) merchandise and technique, marking among the AI search startup’s strongest criticisms of its rival.
Talking on the Bloomberg Tech summit in San Francisco Thursday, Srinivas panned Google’s AI assistant as a “horrible product” and in addition claimed the tech big basically introduces the identical synthetic intelligence characteristic yr after yr, with out truly delivery it to customers.
Based in 2022, Perplexity has emerged as probably the most distinguished startups utilizing generative AI to rethink core web providers. The corporate is in superior discussions to lift a brand new spherical of funding at a $14 billion (roughly Rs. 1,20,036 crore) valuation, Bloomberg Information has reported.
Perplexity can be in talks for a wide-ranging deal to combine its expertise into Samsung Electronics’ units — a tie-up which will scale back the South Korean firm’s reliance on Google’s AI software program.
Srinivas stated Google has made it tougher for Perplexity to dealer partnerships with smartphone makers. “Google has given us a really onerous time,” he stated, with out spelling out precisely what the tech big has finished. “They positively don’t desire us to succeed.”
Whereas Perplexity stays a fraction of Google’s measurement, Srinivas claims the startup may sooner or later be price trillions by altering how folks expertise the web and changing into what he calls “the accuracy layer of AI.”
“Day-after-day, trillions of {dollars} of selections are made throughout retail, finance, markets, exchanges, every little thing,” he stated. “If we will affect an enormous chunk of that, then that may routinely imply we will be price trillions in market cap sooner or later.”
Google’s guardian firm, Alphabet, at the moment has a market valuation of greater than $2 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,71,46,810 crore).
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