Perplexity CEO: open source will commoditize AI, agents will spawn tiny unicorns

On the 20VC podcast, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argued open-source models will make today's frontier capabilities cheap, that software should always pay for the strongest models, and that AI agents will spawn an explosion of 20-person billion-dollar companies.

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