{"id":950515,"date":"2025-07-28T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950515"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:14:18","slug":"indian-origin-man-left-google-became-chatgpts-nightmare-it-all-started-with-a-mothers-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/28\/indian-origin-man-left-google-became-chatgpts-nightmare-it-all-started-with-a-mothers-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin man left Google, became ChatGPT\u2019s nightmare; It all started with a mother\u2019s dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, one name has emerged as a serious challenger to ChatGPT, Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. Once a researcher at Google, Srinivas walked away from Big Tech to build something of his own. In just under three years, Perplexity AI has gone from an experimental idea to a multibillion-dollar startup, valued at $18 billion as of July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this extraordinary journey is a deeply personal story, one that began with his mother\u2019s dream in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence, one name has emerged as a serious challenger to ChatGPT, Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI. Once a researcher at Google, Srinivas walked away from Big Tech to build something of his own. In just under three years, Perplexity AI has gone from an experimental idea to a multibillion-dollar startup, valued at $18 billion as of July 2025. At the heart of this extraordinary journey is a deeply personal story, one that began with his mother\u2019s dream in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}