Perplexity CEO: always pay for the very best frontier model in software
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-19
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the 20VC podcast: in software, you should always pay for the very best frontier model. His analogy: with a $1M budget, would you hire five $200K medium engineers or one Jeff Dean-level talent for the full $1M? His answer: go with the top performer — quality gaps can't be made up by stacking mediocre options.
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