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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:53 - How Perplexity works
9:50 - How Google works
32:17 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin
46:52 - Jeff Bezos
50:20 - Elon Musk
52:38 - Jensen Huang
55:55 - Mark Zuckerberg
57:23 - Yann LeCun
1:04:09 - Breakthroughs in AI
1:20:07 - Curiosity
1:26:24 - $1 trillion dollar question
1:41:14 - Perplexity origin story
1:56:27 - RAG
2:18:45 - 1 million H100 GPUs
2:21:17 - Advice for startups
2:33:54 - Future of search
2:51:31 - Future of AI

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