Perplexity AI is Destroying the LLM Wrapper Myth

No one has shipped faster than Perplexity AI in the past month. Yet, when CEO Aravind Srinivas launched the startup, he was met with scepticism and criticism, with some dismissing it as nothing more than an LLM wrapper. Today, however, from asking complex questions to keeping track of the latest details, Perplexity AI is one of the most useful tools for various purposes. Balaraman Ravindran, an Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT) professor and former mentor to Srinivas during his undergraduate years, told AIM that Perplexity is far more than just a ChatGPT wrapper. “It’s a wrapper around LLMs,” he said, adding that a lot of products should be designed that way because many LLMs have complementary strengths. “If you are an expert user and know what a particular LLM