Perplexity AI
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Founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski in San Francisco, Perplexity was created to reimagine how people search for information on the internet. Unlike traditional search engines that return a list of links, Perplexity reads the web in real-time and synthesizes a direct, cited answer to any question. The product quickly gained a passionate following among researchers, students, and professionals as a daily alternative to Google. By 2025, Perplexity had reached 100 million monthly active users and raised funding at a $9 billion valuation from investors including SoftBank, Jeff Bezos, and NVIDIA. It launched Perplexity Pro and a shopping assistant, signaling its ambition to become the AI layer on top of the entire internet.
Active Founders
Aravind Srinivas
Founder / CEO
Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. Born in India, he completed his PhD at UC Berkeley focusing on reinforcement learning and generative models, and previously worked as a research scientist at OpenAI and DeepMind. Aravind's deep technical background and clear vision for AI-native search has made him one of the most talked-about founders in Silicon Valley. He is known for his intellectually honest takes on AI and his ambition to build the world's best answer engine.
Denis Yarats
Co-Founder / CTO
Denis Yarats is the co-founder and CTO of Perplexity AI. He holds a PhD from NYU and previously worked as a research scientist at Meta AI Research, where he published influential papers on reinforcement learning and self-supervised learning. Denis built much of Perplexity's core retrieval and language model infrastructure that enables the platform to search, read, and synthesize web content in real-time to produce accurate and well-cited answers.
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