What was the inspiration behind founding Perplexity AI in 2022?

Aravind Srinivas
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Co-Founder & CEO at Perplexity AI

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. 41.6 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2022

I moved to the US from India to pursue my PhD at UC Berkeley. After working at OpenAI and DeepMind, I realized that the way we search for information was ripe for disruption. In 2022, we co-founded Perplexity to build a conversational answer engine that bypasses traditional link directories to provide direct, cited answers to users' questions.

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