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Aravind Srinivas - Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI

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Aravind Srinivas is an Indian computer scientist and entrepreneur. He co-founded Perplexity AI, a search engine utilizing generative AI to answer queries.

Introduction

Aravind Srinivas is an Indian computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, a conversational search engine.

Academic Journey

Srinivas graduated from IIT Madras with a degree in electrical engineering and earned a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, specializing in reinforcement learning and transformers.

Perplexity Search

After working as a researcher at OpenAI and Google, Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022. The company builds a chat-based search engine that synthesizes search queries into conversational answers with citations.

Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas
Company Perplexity AI
Country India
Born August 15, 1994 (age 32)
Chennai, India
Education IIT Madras, UC Berkeley (PhD)
Notable work Perplexity AI Search Engine, OpenAI Researcher
Title Co-founder & CEO of Perplexity AI

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