Perplexity Labs can draft 98-99% of an IPO prospectus: CEO Aravind Srinivas
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon recently remarked that
artificial intelligence
(AI), along with its many abilities, can now also write 95% of the draft papers for the public listing of a company. Perplexity chief Aravind Srinivas responded saying that his AI company's latest product, Perplexity Labs, the accuracy has now reached 98-99%.
— AravSrinivas (@AravSrinivas)
Speaking at a Cisco event, Solomon said drafting the pre-IPO papers for a company used to take a six-person team and two weeks to create, but AI can do this in mere minutes, he said, and with 95% accuracy. He said, as quoted by a report by Financial Times the last 5% "now matters because the rest is now a commodity".
Perplexity in May released Perplexity Labs, which it described as a "24x7 dedicated answering machine" for users.
Labs can generate reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and simple web applications. The company states that Labs performs 10 minutes or more of self-supervised work, leveraging a suite of tools including deep web browse, code execution, and chart and image creation, to transform users' ideas into tangible output.
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