Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas recently went to Reddit for address user product complaints and reassure them that the company is not under serious financial pressure.
Srinivas seemed to be responding, in part, A user theory that the company is “making horribly financially” and “making many changes to reduce costs.” As an example, the theorizer pointed out the automatic mode of Perplexity, where the AI search engine automatically selects the model with which to answer a user’s message.
On the contrary, Srinivas said that perplexity created the automatic mode because “all AI products are currently sending without stopping and adding a ton of buttons and menus and drop -down disorder”, which according to him “is not sustainable.”
“The user should not have to learn so much to use a product,” he said.
As for whether perplexity faces pressure to reduce costs or opi, Srinivas said: “We have all the funds we have raised and our income is only growing.” In fact, he said that the company has no coating plans before 2028 “.
