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# Aravind Srinivas

## Profile

The CEO of **Perplexity**.

## Featured contribution

Quoted as framing the [[entity-perplexity-personal-computer]] at a developer conference with the now-iconic statement (see [[quote-ai-os-objectives]]):

> A traditional operating system takes instructions, and an AI operating system takes objectives.

## Role in source

Aravind's framing is used by the speaker to articulate the conceptual shift the industry is undergoing — from imperative computing to objective-based computing. The frame is then *complicated* by the speaker's argument: agents that take objectives still need explicit context to *interpret* those objectives, which is exactly what [[concept-expertise-elicitation]] provides.