Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas to students on BigTech: You got to live with that fear, they will …

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas advised AI startup founders at Y Combinator to anticipate that Big Tech companies will replicate their innovations, citing Perplexity’s web crawling feature being copied by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. He urged founders to persevere, create differentiated products, and build resilient brands, as large companies may also attempt to overshadow their presence.