Perplexity’s CEO Aravind Srinivas is pointing to a quiet shift in AI use: the valuable user is no longer the average user.
A single power user can now consume as much compute as an entire small team.
"There are real engineers at Meta and other companies spending around $10 million a year per engineer on these coding tools.
There are users in Perplexity Computer, who spends upwards of $10,000 a month. Their business runs using agent loops that are running inside these harnesses.
Even internally inside our own company, there are some people who have set up these kinds of multi-agent hierarchies and agent loops that look like their own software architecture. I often ask these people to come explain to the rest of the company, “Hey, what are you doing with these tools? You clearly are consuming them way more than what we thought the average person in the company would do.”
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The old software instinct was to chase a billion people doing small actions.
Agentic AI changes that math because one skilled operator can create a stream of machine work that runs all day.
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