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I am Cofounder, President, and CEO of Perplexity (Aug 2022 – Present).

I have been an active Angel Investor since Jan 2023, investing in 20+ startups including Cursor, Eleven Labs, Suno, and SpaceX.

I was a Research Scientist at OpenAI (Sep 2021 – Aug 2022) focusing on language and diffusion generative models.

I was a Research Intern at OpenAI (May 2018 – Aug 2018) working on Policy Gradient Algorithms.

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras: Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech), Electrical Engineering (2017).

I transitioned from research roles at leading AI labs to entrepreneurship to serve the world’s curiosity via Perplexity, and I invest across AI‑adjacent startups to diversify impact.

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