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Dmitry Shevelenko discusses the evolution of Perplexity and the enduring human skills in the AI era.

Perplexity has become one of the most important AI companies in the world, but its ambitions now stretch far beyond AI-powered search. In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we sit down with Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity, to discuss how the company evolved from an AI answer engine into a platform for AI agents and digital coworkers. Dmitry explains why Perplexity has focused so intensely on accuracy, how AI is changing the nature of work, and why he believes the future belongs to small, highly leveraged teams. The conversation also explores Perplexity Computer, hybrid compute, the coming shift toward AI agents, and what leaders need to do to stay relevant in a world where AI increasingly performs knowledge work. Topics covered: • Why Perplexity made accuracy its defining principle • How Perplexity grew from 20 employees to 400 • The rise of AI agents and digital coworkers • Why Perplexity abandoned advertising as a core strategy • How Perplexity Computer orchestrates multiple AI models • The future of hybrid cloud and local AI computing • Why "tokenmaxxing" may not be sustainable • How AI is reshaping entry-level jobs • Why entrepreneurship may…

People in this episode

Guest: Dmitry Shevelenko

Topics covered

• AI agents
• digital coworkers
• accuracy in AI
• future of work
• entrepreneurship
• hybrid computing

Keywords

• AI
• Perplexity
• accuracy
• digital coworkers
• hybrid cloud
• entrepreneurship
• knowledge work
• AI agents

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Organizations: Perplexity

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