{"id":219635,"date":"2026-01-04T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:06:09","slug":"perplexity-ceo-says-on-device-ai-threatens-data-centers-as-industry-faces-10-trillion-question-apple-qualcomm-positioned-to-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219635\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity CEO Says On-Device AI Threatens Data Centers As Industry Faces ‘$10 Trillion Question’ \u2014 Apple, Qualcomm Positioned To Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:<\/a>NVDA<\/a>), issued a contrarian warning about the future of artificial intelligence, saying on-device intelligence running on personal devices could disrupt the centralized data center model driving massive infrastructure investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest threat to a data center is if the intelligence can be packed locally on a chip that\u2019s running on the device and then there\u2019s no need to inference all of it on like one centralized data center,\u201d Srinivas said in a podcast interview with Prakhar Gupta released last week.<\/p>\n

Srinivas, who has previously worked at OpenAI, Google Brain, and DeepMind, said that AI running directly on personal devices could reduce the need for centralized data centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat really disrupts the whole data center industry like it doesn\u2019t make sense to spend all this money $500 billion, $5 trillion whatever on building all the centralized data centers across the world,\u201d he said, calling it a \u201c$10 trillion question, hundred trillion dollar question.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also highlighted scenarios where AI running locally could learn from repeated tasks on individual devices, adapting over time and automating user activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt adapts to you and over time starts automating a lot of the things you do. That way you don\u2019t have to repeat it. That\u2019s your intelligence. You own it. It\u2019s your brain,\u201d Srinivas said.<\/p>\n

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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:<\/a>AAPL<\/a>) has \u201ca massive advantage\u201d due to its M1 chips and power-efficient devices, according to Srinivas. Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ:<\/a>QCOM<\/a>) and original equipment manufacturers, including Apple, Samsung (OTC:<\/a>SSNLF<\/a>), Lenovo (OTC:<\/a>LNVGF<\/a>), and HP Inc. (NYSE:<\/a>HPQ<\/a>) could also benefit from distributing AI-enabled devices.<\/p>\n

However, technical barriers remain. Srinivas noted that no AI model has yet been released that can run efficiently on a local chip while completing tasks reliably.<\/p>\n

The Indian-born entrepreneur expects early adoption on MacBooks or iPads before reaching smartphones.<\/p>\n

He also discussed the potential for AI in the physical world, especially in robotics. Srinivas said AI could transform the labor market by automating many tasks now done by humans, echoing concerns raised by Geoffrey Hinton who is often called the \u2018Godfather of AI\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), issued a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,68302,343,344,6737,85,4427,46,121243,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-219635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-aravind-srinivas","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-data-center","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-intelligence","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-personal-devices","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}