Perplexity AI’s Chief Govt Officer Aravind Srinivas issued a broadside towards Google’s Synthetic Intelligence (AI) merchandise and technique, marking a few of 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 likewise claimed the tech large primarily introduces the identical synthetic intelligence characteristic yr after yr, with out really delivery it to customers.
Based in 2022, Perplexity has emerged as one of the distinguished startups utilizing generative AI to rethink core web providers. The corporate is in superior discussions to boost 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 arduous time,” he stated, with out spelling out precisely what the tech large has performed. “They positively don’t need us to succeed.”
Whereas Perplexity stays a fraction of Google’s measurement, Srinivas claims the startup would possibly someday be price trillions by altering how folks expertise the web and turning 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 thing,” he stated. “If we are able to affect an enormous chunk of that, then that may mechanically imply we could be price trillions in market cap someday.”
Google’s guardian firm, Alphabet, presently has a market valuation of greater than $2 trillion (roughly Rs. 1,71,46,810 crore).
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