Artificial intelligence has been widely predicted to disrupt smartphones, and hurt Apple, but Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues that the iPhone will become more important as AI improve
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In a segment from “This Week in AI” published on April 23, Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of AI search company Perplexity, lays out an outside view of Apple’s position. Srinivas, who previously worked in AI research roles at OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind, argues that AI may reinforce Apple’s core products instead of replacing them.
“The phone, the iPhone is actually not getting disrupted by AI at all,” Srinivas says, arguing that better AI pushes the device in the opposite direction, turning it into “your digital passport.”