AI STRATEGY

'The Orchestration Is the Product': What Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas Sees That the Model Labs Don't

Perplexity launched a $200-a-month agent that coordinates 19 models and calls orchestration, not the model, the product. Here is the strategic case for why the durable, defensible layer in AI sits next to the labs, not inside them - and what 'token value per watt per user' actually means for builders.