Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas warns aspiring entrepreneurs: ‘Big tech will copy anything that works’

Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of AI startup Perplexity, issued a stark warning to students and budding entrepreneurs at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School this week, urging them to be prepared for the inevitability of Big Tech copying successful ideas.

Addressing an audience of undergraduates, graduates, and PhD candidates, Srinivas underscored the competitive intensity of the AI sector, where larger companies such as Google, Meta, and OpenAI are constantly scouting for innovations they can replicate and scale. “If your company can generate…