Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas pens 2 ’simple’ things for AI as Qwen 2.5, DeepSeek rock the world

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, took to X to highlight two crucial factors that have significantly improved the user experience (UX) and trust in AI products.

According to Srinivas, the key drivers behind this transformation are the integration of sources (citations) and reasoning traces (chain of thought) within AI systems.