Google CEO Sundar Pichai met Perplexity AI co-founder Aravind Srinivas in Paris on Tuesday. The meeting between two high-profile Indian-origin CEOs sent social media into overdrive, with many joking about their common roots in Tamil Nadu and others wondering if Google is planning to acquire Srinivas’s startup.
Both Pichai and Srinivas were attending the AI Action Summit in Paris, co-chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron.
On Tuesday, Perplexity AI CEO and co-founder Aravind Srinivas shared a photograph that shows him posing with the CEO of Google. Both Pichai and Srinivas were dressed in formals, with the former wearing a blue necktie and the latter choosing red.
“Great meeting you Sundar Pichai,” wrote Srinivas as he shared the photograph on X.
