Aravind Srinivas
110 storiesAravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity. Recent coverage centers on Perplexity Computer: a new voice mode rolling out to Pro and Max users on web and Mac apps, new skills in its marketplace including /teardown and the open-source /impeccable, and enterprise admin controls that set floor and ceiling on Effort levels. He also highlighted Particle, a new company optimizing open-weight models for token efficiency.

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Vercel developers can now use Perplexity Decider on AI Gateway!
[Quoting @vercel_dev]: Decider V1.2 decision models from @perplexity_ai are on AI Gateway.
• 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚝𝚢/𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚡-𝚍𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛-𝚟𝟷.𝟸 for complex agent workflows
• 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚝…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Openrouter is the best place to use Perplexity Decider models
[Quoting @OpenRouter]: Perplexity Decider v1.2 and Decider Flash v1.2 are now on OpenRouter
@perplexity_ai's open-weights decision models take text or images and return typed answers with probabili…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas True
[Quoting @elonmusk]: @tobi Even without rocket thrusters, Roadster will crush the best Formula 1 track times, because we are using suction and active control surfaces, both of which are banned by F1

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Perplexity can be your Personal CFO with @Plaid connector set up inside Computer.
[Quoting @Plaid]: Asking people to connect their financial accounts takes trust. That’s why @perplexity_ai built Personal CFO with Plaid. We sat down with @jeffgrimes9 to talk a…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas We’ve integrated @morluto’s Reverse-Engineer-Anything skill inside Computer. And, we’re giving up to 10000 credits as a bootstrapping credit balance for any one to use them to reverse engineer any app of their choice! Have fun!
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: REA (…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Gemini 4 Argon is a frontier model and has set a new SoTA on Wide-And-Deep-Research (WANDR) benchmark. Available now to all Perplexity users both on fast search and Computer (agent) modes.
[Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Gemini 4 Argon sets a new record on WANDR.
I…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Neoclouds can't just lease GPUs. They need to own the full agent inference platform: open-weight models (SGLang), fine-tuned models (Miles, River), and secure sandboxes (SPACE). We look forward to working with Coreweave, Akamai, Crusoe, and more partners.
[Qu…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Nemotron, one of America's leading open-weight multimodal models, is available on Perplexity. Try it out!
[Quoting @perplexity_ai]: NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers, and in Agent API.

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas America is the market to build for 🇺🇸
More than 50% of our users spending money on Automations (recurring agentic tasks) or on the higher tier plans are American
Net dollar retention for an American self serve business onboarded on agents is consistently hi…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas We wrote up how our sandbox platform serving daily traffic on Perplexity handles millions of executions a day with a low error rate while still using multiple machines to lower serving costs.
[Quoting @perplexity_ai]: Our sandbox, SPACE, handles millions of e…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas /anatomy now in Perplexity Computer for all (skill originally built by @wheresryan22)

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Users are reverse engineering and porting software across platforms with Perplexity Computer. This user's mechanical keyboard app was Windows only, with no Linux support and no documentation. Computer downloaded the binary in its cloud sandbox, decompiled it…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas 👀
[Quoting @leadinginds]: The most-purchased AI vendor in each category, based on Ramp spend data.
Search, dictation and coding have clear leaders, with Perplexity, Wispr Flow and Claude Code each bought by 87%+ of category buyers.
Inference, GPU capacity an…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Every Perplexity Project is a Git repo. We built a Git forge for agents, without the GitHub bloat, since no human has to approve anything.
Each agent gets its own short-lived sandbox and commits to a shared repo on S3. Fewer than 2% of submissions collide.
Ag…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Congrats to Meta for training a frontier-grade model! Watermelon compares favorably to Fable 5.1 on WANDR evals.
[Quoting @alexandr_wang]: introducing muse wonder
our new frontier model. state-of-the-art at personal agents and professional agents.
our largest…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Was a fun chat! Thanks for having me @MollySOShea!
[Quoting @MollySOShea]: NEW: I sat down w/ Perplexity Founder & CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) on why AI-native SMBs could drive the next American millionaire economic boom.
@perplexity_ai, valued at ~$…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Perplexity Decider ranks first on DecisionBench (and lowest cost too)
[Quoting @rohanatlan]: @perplexity_ai’s Decider V1.1 ranked #1 on with lowest cost!
949 shared text cases: 93.9% accuracy · 534 ms median · $0.016 / 1k decisions
Thanks @AravSrinivas & per…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas perplexity’s open weights decision model the best quality and lowest cost for clinical decisions
[Quoting @MaziyarPanahi]: an open model just beat Jev outright on clinical decisions 🔥
pplx-decider v1.1 got 643 of 669 right vs 628 for Jev, at 42% less per dec…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Cool demo of Perplexity Decider!
[Quoting @sanchitmonga22]: Yes indeed, @perplexity_ai's decider is the best decision model. That's why we use it in EVE, our inference stack for decision models.
Here it is speedrunning "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas AI is the work operating system
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: A thumbnail rail in Computer lets you jump straight to any slide, PDF page, or image.

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas We’re open-sourcing pplx-embed-v2-late, multi-vector embeddings for text and images, 9B and 0.6B, in one shared embedding space. You can use these to index multimodal data with 9B, and query on device with 0.6B. This also enables you to search over PDF pages…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas We’re living in incredible times!
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer made this animated scene from concept art to final edit.
It planned shots in Blender, generated reference images with Nano Banana, and animated and scored it with Seedance 2.5.

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Also, Perplexity Decision API pricing was cut by half, now to 2 cents per million input tokens. Enjoy!
[Quoting @perplexitydevs]: pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, our updated open weights multimodal decision model, is now available.
It scores the highest on the new @hu…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Engineering Design as a service
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer can create an interactive 3D preview of a design and export the model as an editable CAD file.
It can also make changes in FreeCAD and record a video of the edits.

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Perplexity wins on Hugging Face Decision Index (benchmark for decision models). Our model is open-weights and accessible to all!
[Quoting @perplexitydevs]: pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, our updated open weights multimodal decision model, is now available.
It scores…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Perplexity Decider is the best decision model
[Quoting @alokbishoyi97]: Here's a fun benchmark we ran: 8 decision models playing Tetris. In our tests @perplexity_ai Decider came consistently at the top !! ( cc @AravSrinivas )
you can try em out here -

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas We got Computer playing StarCraft against Computer, in real time. No pausing. The game keeps running while each agent thinks.
Blue 2 – Red 5
Final match. Blue builds up safely, reaches 41 Dragoons, and moves out. Red is waiting with High Templar and hits the…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas A spatial canvas for heavy duty multi-tasking.
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: The Perplexity App for Mac now has tabs, and sessions can be opened in separate windows.
You can run tasks next to each other in parallel, or place sessions on different screens.
Live no…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas You can build custom vertical AI apps inside Computer, eg: guess spatial location of an image with 3D and satellite view.
[Quoting @AskPerplexity]: Computer built a GeoGuessr LLM that poinpoints the location of an image, and shows all of its thinking steps.
I…

Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas Pokémon FireRed’s Elite Four + Champion, cleared in one shot - with decision-making powered by Perplexity’s Decisions API.
The actual run stats:
592 ms median API response
987 ms p95 - 96.4% of responses under one second
$0.028 estimated inference cost, 137 l…
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