Perplexity CEO: Open-Source Will Cheapen Frontier AI, But New Workloads Will Sustain Demand
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-20
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings, argued that today's frontier AI capabilities will eventually become cheap and widely available via open-source models, cutting what people pay for current workloads — but new, more advanced workloads will keep emerging and sustain demand for frontier models.
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