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Perplexity CEO tells CNBC one metric will determine who clinches the AI race
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The companies that can provide the most economic value from the power their AI uses will ultimately command the highest valuations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday.
Key facts
- Perplexity, which was last reportedly valued at $20 billion, trails behind Anthropic and OpenAI, whose valuations have climbed to nearly $1 trillion and over $850 billion, respectively
- The companies that can provide the most economic value from the power their AI uses will ultimately command the highest valuations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday
- While Perplexity develops some of its own models, its key products integrate models from other AI firms like Anthropic
- On Wednesday, Perplexity said that its Personal Computer product will be available on Microsoft' s Windows operating system, enabling the AI to connect to apps like Word and Outlook, as well as files
Summary
Srinivas said that whichever company can provide the "most token value per watt per user" will be the winner in the future. "Whoever can maximize this particular objective will, by balancing accuracy, latency, cost, privacy and intelligence all together, they're going to win, that's what's going to win long term," Srinivas told CNBC's Elaine Yu . A token refers to the basic unit of data that an AI model can process. "And so it might feel like some model providers are making a lot of money because their models are expensive. but that's short-term revenue growth," Srinivas said.