Perplexity CEO at SGLang Summit: building 'Computer', the agent-first next computer
ying11231 · x · 2026-11-15
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas gave a 15-minute talk at SGLang Summit on 'Building the Next Computer', with notes shared by Banghua Zhu:
- Origin: Perplexity built an internal Slack agent in January where employees talked to the bot more than to each other; Marc Andreessen texted Aravind about a company where people mostly talk to a bot — 'that was basically us.'
- Why 'Computer'?: Close to a SuperAgent, but he chose a word that once referred to people doing math for astronomers.
- Search as code: fetch, chunk, embed, retrieve all exposed via a Python SDK so agents can call search programmatically.
Banghua Zhu called the talk cool and Perplexity Computer a striking product.
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