Perplexity AI CEO says AI race comes down to value per watt

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on Wednesday that the winner of the artificial intelligence race will be determined by which company delivers the highest "value per watt per user," prioritizing energy efficiency and user utility over raw model performance. Srinivas argued that long-term success depends on balancing accuracy, latency, cost, privacy, and intelligence together.

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...