Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas is focusing on India's AI goals, committing $1 million and 5 hours weekly to support the initiative. He emphasizes the importance of a dedicated team and plans to invest an additional $10 million if they surpass DeepSeek R1 benchmarks. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, has recently stepped up his focus on India's AI ambitions and has now pledged to invest $1 million and 5 hours a week to help the country achieve greatness in AI. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Srinivas wrote, “I am ready to invest a $1mm personally and 5 hours/week of my time into the most qualified group of people that can do this right now for making India great again in the context of AI. Consider this as a commitment that cannot be backtracked. The team has to be cracked and obsessed like DeepSeek team and has to open source the models with MIT license.” “And beating DeepSeek R1 on all benchmarks with rigor will mean I will invest $10mm more.” the Perplexity AI CE...
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