# Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on building an answer engine for curiosity

DevFeed: [Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on building an answer engine for curiosity](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-would-you-ask-if-no-one-could-judge-you-10002.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/perplexity-ai-interview/>)

Author: Alia Fite

Published: 2024-06-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Conversational AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/conversational-ai.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Natural language processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nlp.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Wiki](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wiki.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [ceo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ceo.md>), [conversational-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conversational-ai.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [natural-language-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/natural-language-processing.md>), [perplexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/perplexity.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [slackbot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slackbot.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [wikipedia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wikipedia.md>)

## AI overview

Figma interviews Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas about the company's vision for an answer engine that synthesizes information from the web. He discusses conversational search, sourcing, curiosity, and the origins of Perplexity as an internal Slackbot.

## Source excerpt

Co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas wants Perplexity to be not only a resource, but an engine for curiosity.