Perplexity AI CEO Pans Google’s AI Rollout and Assistant Product

Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas issued a broadside against Google’s artificial intelligence products and strategy, marking some of the AI search startup’s strongest criticisms of its rival.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech summit in San Francisco Thursday, Srinivas panned Google’s AI assistant as a “terrible product” and also claimed the tech giant essentially introduces the same artificial intelligence feature year after year, without actually shipping it to users.