Aravind Srinivas is an Indian-origin CEO of artificial intelligence firm Perplexity AI who recently challenged billionaire Elon Musk to stop him from raising $500 billion from USAID. Srinivas is an alumnus of IIT-Madras, who completed his PhD at University of California, Berkeley. He began his career as a research intern at OpenAI, later holding similar roles at Google and DeepMind.