Perplexity started as an answer engine in 2022. CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) says revenue is now up 5X YoY because the infrastructure they built for search turned out to be exactly what AI agents needed: “We’ve been doing agents before it was called an agent.” “When agents start doing all this work for you, they need access to the internet. They need access to a browser & to be able to take all this information they mined from the web & your own personal context, synthesize it & put…