Perplexity AI CEO says AI race comes down to value per watt
Aravind Srinivas told CNBC the winner will maximize economic output from AI energy use, with orchestration across cloud and on-device models as the lever.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: CNBC
Why it matters
The fight to define the AI race is also a fight to define valuation. Operators should watch whether AI companies can tie usage metrics to retained, paid work rather than demos or raw engagement.
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday that the AI winner will be the company that delivers the "most taken value per watt per user," reframing the race around energy efficiency, user utility and economics rather than model benchmarks alone.
"Whoever is able to maximize this particular objective really will, by balancing accuracy, latency, cost, privacy and intelligence all together, they're going to win, that's what's going to win long term," Srinivas told CNBC's Elaine Yu.…