PERPLEXITY'S CEO HAS AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO TAKE ON GOOGLE

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Perplexity AI is ramping up its rivalry with Google on multiple fronts. It has expanded its research options for businesses, created tools to look up financial data, expanded a partnership with SoftBank for its sales team to resell Perplexity's premium products, and made a long-shot bid to merge with TikTok. Perplexity's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, envisions a world where Perplexity serves as a central hub for more sophisticated and affordable AI tools that can generally act as a personal assistant for users. This article contains an interview with Srinivas where he discusses how he's growing Perplexity's enterprise business, why he's bullish on DeepSeek, and the thinking behind his TikTok bid.