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Srinivas grew up in Chennai, India<ref name="Wired">https://www.wired.com/story/founder-perplexity-ai-sundar-pichai-competing-to-reinvent-search/ Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They're Competing to Reinvent Search. Retrieved 2 July.</ref> and studied Electrical Engineering at the IIT Madras.<ref>https://joyofgiving.alumni.iitm.ac.in/alma-matters/campus-musings/the-machine-learning-mogul-from-iit-madras The Machine Learning Mogul From IIT Madras. Retrieved 2 July.</ref><ref name="PLIn">https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravind-srinivas-16051987/ Aravind Srinivas on LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 July.</ref> Srinivas first worked as a research intern at OpenAI and later completed further internships at Google's DeepMind and Google itself.<ref name="Wired"/><ref name="PLIn"/><ref name=":0">https://lexfridman.com/aravind-srinivas-transcript#chapter0_introduction Transcript for Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434. Retrieved 2 July.</ref>

His academic journey continued when he moved to the United States to do his Ph.D. in AI and deep learning at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="TNight">https://thursdaynightsinai.substack.com/p/episode-1-aravind-srinivas-ceo-perplexityai Recording: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. Retrieved 2 July.</ref><ref name="PLIn" /> His research includes work on reinforcement learning, deep learning and Self-supervised learning|contrastive learning.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Aravind-Srinivas-2140720918 </ref>

In 2022 Srinivas founded Perplexity.ai with his cofounders Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski.<ref name="Wired" /><ref>https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-lands-26m-launches-ios-app/?guccounter=1 AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app.Retrieved 2 July.</ref>