Aravind Srinivas Founder of Perplexity AI, Education, Skills, Career and Net worth

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 From IIT to OpenAI Intern to $18 Billion AI Empire.

Meet Aravind Srinivas Indian mind behind Perplexity AI — the google challenger that’s changing how the world searches.

With a valuation of $18B and global partnerships (including Airtel in India), Aravind is proof that tech dreams have no borders.

Discover his journey from Chennai to Silicon Valley — and how he’s rewriting the future of AI.

About Aravind Srinivas

Aravind Srinivas is CEO and co-founder of Perplexity AI. He was born in Chennai, India. He studied at IIT Madras before moving to the US for further education at the University of California, Berkeley. He have done Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering. From University of California, Berkeley he have done Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science.

Aravind Srinivas Education

• Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras
• PhD Computer Science from University of California

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In HisPHD he have done  research forfollowing topics

• Contrastive Learning for Computer Vision (CPCv2), Reinforcement Learning (CURL).
• Transformers for Image Generation (Flow++), Image Recognition (BoTNet), Video Generation (VideoGPT), Reinforcement Learning (Decision Transformer).

During the PHD he not only done research, also teaching on Deep Unsupervised Learning (Spring 20' and 21').

According to his public profiles, his early career included work with prominent AI researcher Yoshua Bengio and a stint at Google, experiences that gave him a close view of how search and internet technologies operate. In 2022, alongside Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski, he launched Perplexity AI, an AI-powered search engine designed to provide direct, conversational answers using real-time information.

Aravind Srinivas Skills

Aravind Srinivas have various technical issues inclding programming skills like C++, Machine Learning, Python and Data structure algorithms.

Aravind Srinivas Career

Before becoming founder of Perplexity AI. He was an Angel Investor invested in various companies 

• Cursor (AI-first Code Editor)
• Pika Labs (AI Videos)
• Udio (AI Music)
• Mistral (AI Foundation Models)
• Cognition Labs (AI Software Engineer)
• Silurian (AI for Weather Prediction)
• Ray (AI Fitness Coach)
• Suno (AI Music)
• Cartesia (Real Time Multimodal AI)
• LiveKit (RTC API for multimodal AI)
• Antimetal (AI to optimize cloud costs)
• Fal AI (Multimodal Generative AI Inference)

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Aravind Srinivas Job & Companies

Before starting Perplexity he have done in various companies and Inter and researcher.

• Research Intern at OpenAI  for 4 months in San Francisco. Where Aravind Srinivas Research on Policy Gradient Algorithms.
• Research Intern at DeepMind for 4 months in London. Where he have done Large-Scale Contrastive Learning: CPCv2.
• Research Intern at Google for 1 year in California. Where he have  work on Transformers for Vision: Bottleneck Transformers, HaloNet. SoTA Vision Models: Copy-Paste Augmentation, ResNet-RS.
• Research Scientist in OpenAI for 1 year in San Francisco. Where he have done Research on language and diffusion generative models.

Aravind Srinivas Net Worth

Net worth of Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas, as the IIT graduate’s company proposes a deal worth nearly twice its reported $18 billion valuation in a letter of intent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Aravind Srinivas in News

• Perplexity Co-Founder Aravind Srinivas-Backed AI Startup Astra Shuts Operations
• Airtel partners with Perplexity, to offer free Pro subscription to its 360mn customers
• Paytm Partners With Perplexity To Integrate AI-Powered Search
• Search Platform Perplexity AI Secures $73.6 Mn Series B Funding Round