Perplexity Is Worth $8 Billion? Google's Bureaucracy Vs. Perplexity, AI Research

Support the show at patreon.com/svic Join our free weekly newsletter so you don't miss all of the tech news: https://svic.substack.com/ Follow us: Threads: www.threads.net/@svicpodcast Twitter: https://x.com/svicpodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svicpodcast Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@svicpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/svicpodcast Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/svicpodcast Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, and more. Chapters 00:00 Perplexity's Valuation and Fundraising 06:10 Enterprise Business Prospects 12:33 Interview Insights and Market Competition 28:23 Financial Market Predictions 29:33 Market Predictions and Reversion to the Mean 32:01 The Future of AI and Google's Strategy 33:29 Agent S: Advancements in AI Interaction 42:22 Innovations in Language Models and Thought Generation 46:16 Exploring Preference-Based Recursive Language Modeling 53:11 The Potential of Small-Scale AI Innovations 57:15 New Chapter