Aravind Srinivas is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, an innovative company focused on AI-driven search technologies. Born in Chennai, India in 1994, he studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras before shifting his focus to artificial intelligence. He later pursued graduate studies in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Throughout his academic and professional career, Srinivas gained experience at leading tech institutions, including OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind. At OpenAI, he contributed to research on language and diffusion models. His work at Google involved vision transformers, while at DeepMind he worked on large-scale contrastive learning models.
In 2022, he co-founded Perplexity AI with the goal of transforming how people interact with information online. Instead of traditional search results, Perplexity provides direct, conversational answers powered by advanced AI models. The company quickly gained attention and secured major backing from top investors in the tech world.
Aravind Srinivas is also known for his outspoken views on the importance of unbiased information and has advocated for alternatives to traditional platforms that may present content with certain biases. Under his leadership, Perplexity AI continues to push boundaries in the AI search space, aiming to make information access more intuitive and reliable for everyone.
