The man behind the new tool is Aravind Srinivas. After interning at OpenAI and Google's DeepMind, both of which became leaders in generative artificial intelligence, Srinivas co-founded Perplexity, a start-up valued at $1 billion that provides fast, Wikipedia-like responses to search queries.
By 'gleaning answers from a variety of large language models, both closed and open-source', Perplexity AI can take advantage of each model's analytical strengths and their varying pricing structures to improve performance and lower costs.
Srinivas has 'openly thrown down the gauntlet to Google' because 'upstarts are supposed to win over underserved customers with cheap, scrappy technology'. But Perplexity may be more expensive than Google and its answers tend to be far more polished (if not always accurate).
The thing you have to understand about a search engine is that a search engine is many things. People use Google to 'find important and hard-to-access scientific inf'.
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