{"id":986816,"date":"2026-01-21T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986816"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:12:19","slug":"the-story-of-perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-from-iit-madras-to-indias-youngest-billionaire-and-ai-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/the-story-of-perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-from-iit-madras-to-indias-youngest-billionaire-and-ai-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas: From IIT Madras to India\u2019s youngest billionaire and AI expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity has made quite a splash in India\u2019s AI scene. Considered to be among the fiercest rivals to Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI ChatGPT and Sundar Pichai\u2019s Google Gemini, the rise of Perplexity has been fueled by its Indian CEO and co-founder, Aravind Srinivas. Srinivas, who appears frequently in headlines and discussions, is considered one of the top talents in the space of AI and is counted to be among the most influential figures in the AI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity has made quite a splash in India\u2019s AI scene. Considered to be among the fiercest rivals to Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI ChatGPT and Sundar Pichai\u2019s Google Gemini, the rise of Perplexity has been fueled by its Indian CEO and co-founder, Aravind Srinivas. Srinivas, who appears frequently in headlines and discussions, is considered one of the top talents in the space of AI and is counted to be among the most influential figures in the AI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986816","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}