“People want to use their own local hardware”
“Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028 so that still remains the case”
“If there is an open source model that gets the job done 90% of the time, I'd probably use that if it's 10 to 20 times cheaper than the frontier model. The future is still awesome for…”
“If for six months you don't see a model capability advance from one of these two companies, then it's a problem for them”
“Whoever is able to maximize this particular objective really will, by balancing accuracy, latency, cost, privacy and intelligence all together, they're going to win, that's what's going to…”
“The data center is coming to your laptop.”
“That hybrid neutral orchestration layer is what we are doing, and that allows us to balance all the different objectives simultaneously.”
“Instead of hiring one more person on your team, you could just use Comet to supplement all the work that you're doing.”
“Srinivas estimated that the value of "human digital knowledge work" contributes around $25 trillion to the gross domestic product, so a 20% gain in productivity could easily amount to $5…”
“Give it a year, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate”
“If people are in the browser, it’s infinite retention”
“You really need to actually have a browser and hybridize the compute on the client and the server side in the most seamless way possible”
“Hey AG Sulzberger @nytimes sorry to see this. Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. DM me anytime here.”
“the offer was *not* to ‘replace’ journalists or engineers with AI but to provide technical infra support on a high-traffic day.”
“If we can achieve that, that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real…”
“We do not have to beat them, neither do we have to take them on. In fact, I feel the primary difference of Perplexity from other startups that have explicitly laid out that they’re taking…”
“Personalization, there’s an 80/20 here. The 80/20 is achieved with your location, let’s say your gender, and then sites you typically go to, like rough sense of topics of what you’re…”
“So firstly, we are an application layer company. We try to build a product that directly reaches every single user, every single person on the planet, giving them accurate, instant,…”