Google is not going to come down crashing immediately: Aravind of Perplexity 😎
+ Goodies for free ChatGPT users
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Today’s edition brings you insights from Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity.ai on how he looks at evolving search experience to news around freebies for ChatGPT users. Here we go!
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity.ai, shares his journey from being a research scientist at OpenAI to building a billion-dollar AI-based search company.
In this conversation, he discusses the vision, strategy, and future prospects of Perplexity.ai, and how it is disrupting the search industry with its AI-powered ‘answer engine’.
The vision of Perplexity.ai
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity.ai, aims to create an AI-powered ‘answer engine’ that continually learns and improves, offering a unique approach to the search engine landscape.
Perplexity.ai is designed to provide direct answers to user queries, challenging traditional search engines that rely on revenue from link clicks.
People who use AI models fall in 3 categories
Taker
takes an existing model, prompt engineers it and puts it in production.Shakers
Fine-tunes the model, trains it on their own data and specializes it for their own productMakers
Builds the core foundation model itself.
Start with something really big—it could even be a single word. I think that’s the sort of thing that we want Perplexity to be: the ultimate app that keeps working for you to make you smarter and smarter. – Aravind Srinivas
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AI Product of the day
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Big AI news of the day
OpenAI brings Custom GPTs, memory, vision and more to free ChatGPT users
OpenAI has announced that free ChatGPT users can now access custom GPTs created by others, ask questions about images, ask the chatbot to analyse charts and use features introduced earlier this month with GPT-4o.
OpenAI partners with PwC to expand ChatGPT’s enterprise reach
OpenAI announces PwC as its largest customer and first resale partner for ChatGPT’s enterprise tier, targeting 100,000 users.
The partnership aims to leverage PwC’s extensive network for reselling ChatGPT enterprise services, marking a significant push into monetizing AI for business applications.
India collaborates with Google to advance digital healthcare
Google’s Health AI team develops tools like Med-PaLM and Med-Gemini, focusing on improving healthcare through technology.
Concerns arise over health data security with the digitization of healthcare, highlighting the need for revised data protection laws in India.
Google plans to invest $2 billion in Malaysia, focusing on a data center and cloud region to meet growing AI and cloud service demands.
Meta discovered deceptive, likely AI-generated comments on Facebook and Instagram praising Israel’s Gaza conflict actions. The deceptive campaign, linked to a Tel Aviv-based firm, mimicked diverse personas to target North American users.
OpenAI has started training a successor to GPT-4, aiming to advance towards artificial general intelligence with enhanced capabilities in AI products. A new Safety and Security Committee has been established to address the risks associated with the upcoming model and future AI technologies.
AI Joke of the day
Why did the AI cross the road? To prove it wasn't following a script.