Phi Hoang retweeted
I'm hiring at @perplexity_ai and looking for someone with a very particular set of skills. the ideal candidate...
• eats, sleeps, and breathes native mobile apps (esp iOS) and probably preordered the Duo
• has strong visual/animation chops and a knack for bringing brands to life in product
• is very comfortable prototyping on device, vibing out some SwiftUI in Xcode, and putting up their own PRs
if that sounds like you, DM me a video of something you've built in the last six months (either on the clock or on the side), specifically on/for mobile, that you're super proud of. and if it sounds like someone you know, tag them in the replies!
• eats, sleeps, and breathes native mobile apps (esp iOS) and probably preordered the Duo
• has strong visual/animation chops and a knack for bringing brands to life in product
• is very comfortable prototyping on device, vibing out some SwiftUI in Xcode, and putting up their own PRs
if that sounds like you, DM me a video of something you've built in the last six months (either on the clock or on the side), specifically on/for mobile, that you're super proud of. and if it sounds like someone you know, tag them in the replies!
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build more why nots
.@scspeier, Head of Design at @perplexity_ai, shares how his team uses their own product to build tools for themselves and shape new capabilities for Computer.
00:00 How Perplexity's design team works
02:11 Why designers are spending more time building
06:41 Why designers should :17 Turning a marketing request into a self-serve design tool
11:38 When an internal tool becomes a product opportunity
13:01 A look at the tools Perplexity's designers use internally
21:25 How design tools influence the way a brand looks
24:39 How to get your team started building its own tools
26:28 Balancing self-serve design tools with brand quality
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pplx computer now fully local on your mac
Perplexity Computer can now run fully local on your Mac.
Work with your native Mac apps and local files, and run tasks without sending sensitive data to the cloud. The model and the agent both run on your Mac.
Available now in the Perplexity Mac app.
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Phi Hoang retweeted
🌸 NEW WORK FOR THE PHS PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW 🌸
Earlier this year Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) approached us to help come up with the identity and key visuals for their 2027 flower show. It was called ICONIC so we knew we wanted the flowers to feel monumental. We er Bre Furlong (breannefurlong.com) to shoot 18 beautifully unique florals in stunning detail. These beauties are gonna look incredible on banners and billboards all over Philadelphia this winter.
Earlier this year Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) approached us to help come up with the identity and key visuals for their 2027 flower show. It was called ICONIC so we knew we wanted the flowers to feel monumental. We er Bre Furlong (breannefurlong.com) to shoot 18 beautifully unique florals in stunning detail. These beauties are gonna look incredible on banners and billboards all over Philadelphia this winter.
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built on curiosity
NEW: I sat down w/ Perplexity Founder & CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) on why AI-native SMBs could drive the next American millionaire economic boom.
@perplexity_ai, valued at ~$20B with ~$2B in reported funding, $750M in annualized revenue as of August, seeing 5x YoY reves from search into autonomous agents.
One example Aravind shared is a single-person company generating $3M in annual revenue while spending over $1M a year on Perplexity Computer.
His thesis is that AI could fundamentally change the economics of building a business. Smaller teams, less capital, higher productivity, & entirely new business models.
At the infrastructure layer, Aravind sees a shift toward local & hybrid inference, with AI agents operating across personal devices and the cloud. As context windows expand and workloads become more personalized, local compute becomes increasingly cost-competitive, while offering greater privacy, control & data sovereignty.
We cover:
› Why SMBs could become a major driver of US GDP growth
› The shift from AI models to agents & recursive economics
› Why Perplexity is betting on your Mac instead of building data centers
› NVIDIA, Apple Silicon, local inference & sovereign AI
› Why writing code is no longer the bottleneck, but problem-solving is
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Aravind Srinivas, Co-founder & CEO of Perplexity
(01:30) Why Perplexity's brand is built on curiosity
(04:47) Every great invention starts with one question
(08:18) How to build a $1T company in America alone
(12:36) The next big companies will be tiny
(13:45) Is the American dream still alive?
(16:28) Stop blaming users for bad prompts
(22:55) How Perplexity quietly grew 5x
(26:51) The solopreneur spending $1M a year on Perplexity
(28:28) "We don't have competitors, we have contributors"
(29:20) The data center is coming to your laptop
(34:32) Orchestrating up with NVIDIA, down with Apple
(36:11) What happens when your AI agent knows everything
(39:17) Why Perplexity is skipping the data center race
(41:25) Stop asking AI to write code, ask it to think
(45:47) Perplexity’s answer to AI security
(48:27) The Hugging Face incident & multi-agent threats
(50:45) Turning everyone into a scientist
(53:31) Why Perplexity isn’t chasing a billion users
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