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00:03Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that the company's best positioned for long-term
00:08dominance will be those delivering the highest economic value per unit of AI energy used.
00:13Srinivas said the winning metric is token value per watt per user, balancing accuracy, latency,
00:20cost, privacy, and intelligence. AI models break tasks into basic units called tokens,
00:25each requiring energy to process. Srinivas argues that the company achieving the best ratio of
00:30energy to economic output will hold the strongest long-term position in the AI industry.
00:35Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, said its annualized revenue has tripled since the start
00:41of the year, crediting model advances from Anthropic, whose models are integrated into
00:46Perplexity's platform. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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