Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas. Image: TechCrunch via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
‘I certainly think there will be ripple effects if they don’t go well’, Srinivas says, referring to the AI giants that recently filed to go public.
US AI start-up Perplexity has plans to go public in 2028 regardless of the reception of OpenAI and Anthropic’s IPOs, the company’s co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC on 8 June.
“Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028. So, that’s still remains the case,” he told the publication. Though he added that it is “important for the AI industry that these IPOs go well”.
Srinivas’ comments come as OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX all applied to go public within days of each other. Estimates place Elon Musk’s company SpaceX as the front runner in the IPO race with a targeted raise of $75bn at a $1.75trn valuation. While Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to be valued at around $1trn post listing.
