Aravind Srinivas
Also known as Perplexity
Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and chief executive of Perplexity, a company that builds AI tools for search and answers. He completed a dual degree in electrical engineering at IIT Madras in 2017 and a computer science doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. After his doctorate, he worked as a research scientist at OpenAI. He co-founded Perplexity in August 2022 with other technical founders. The company’s products combine language models with information retrieval and source links. Its later work includes a publisher program and the Comet browser. Srinivas discusses these products and his view of how AI can change the way people find and use information.
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Timeline
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2017
Completing study at IIT Madras
Srinivas completed a dual degree in electrical engineering at IIT Madras in 2017. He developed an interest in AI and machine learning during this period. The training preceded doctoral work in the United States and his later move from research into company building.
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2017–2021
Researching at Berkeley
Srinivas completed a computer science doctorate at Berkeley in 2021, working with Pieter Abbeel. His research involved learning systems, including ways to use visual information. This period placed him within an academic AI research group before his later work on consumer-facing information tools.
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August 2022
Co-founding Perplexity
Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in August 2022. Its other founders included Andrew Konwinski. The company built an approach to search that combines language models with retrieved information and source links. Srinivas became its chief executive and a public representative of the product and company.
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October 2025
Making Comet widely available
Perplexity announced that its Comet browser was available to everyone in October 2025. The product extended the company’s work from a search service into a browser with AI features. It added another interface through which Srinivas’s company sought to help users find information and complete tasks.
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2026
Leading the company and public discussion
Srinivas remains Perplexity’s co-founder and chief executive. His public career connects research training with an AI product used to answer questions. He discusses search, information access and the development of new interfaces.
Sources and credits
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