Mikhail Parakhin, the former head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising at Microsoft, has announced he is now on the advisory board for Perplexity. Perplexity is a new AI search start up, which technically would be in competition with Microsoft’s Bing Search and Copilot.
Mikhail Parakhin from on X, “I’m joining the advisory board for Perplexity. Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats and team have built a great product, I’m excited to help them innovate faster.” “Fun fact: I hired Denis 13 years ago as an IC engineer, now look at him,” he added.
In other news: I’m joining the advisory board for @perplexity_ai. @aravsrinivas, @denisyarats, and team have built a great product, I’m excited to help them innovate faster. Fun fact: I hired Denis 13 years ago as an IC engineer, now look at him 🙂
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) May 16, 2024
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, posted on X, “Excited to share that we have three new advisors joining Perplexity to help us across search, mobile, and distribution: Emil Michael, former CBO of Uber, Rich Miner, cofounder of Android, advisor to Google, and Mikhail Parakhin, the former CEO of Bing, who launched Bing Chat and Microsoft Copilot.”
He added that Parakhin “is the world’s leading technical expert on search infrastructure and integrating it with LLMs. He has been at the forefront of AI and search, and his expertise will enable us to evolve our core answer engine, build in-house search infrastructure, anticipate new and unexpected challenges, and integrate new AI capabilities.”
@emilmichael set the foundation for Uber’s $137B market cap, leading the introduction of offerings like Eats and Uber for business. He knows how to play to both consumer and enterprise strengths, and he’ll guide our growth, business, and distribution strategies.
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) May 16, 2024
And @MParakhin is the world’s leading technical expert on search infrastructure and integrating it with LLMs. He has been at the forefront of AI and search, and his expertise will enable us to evolve our core answer engine, build in-house search infrastructure, anticipate new…
