By Mohd Haider
Publication Date: 2026-01-04 03:30:00
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, which is backed by Jeff Bezos and Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA), 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.
“The biggest threat to a data center is if the intelligence can be packed locally on a chip that’s running on the device and then there’s no need to inference all of it on like one centralized data center,” Srinivas said in a podcast interview with Prakhar Gupta released last week.
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.
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“That really disrupts the whole data center industry like it doesn’t make sense to spend all this money $500 billion, $5 trillion whatever on building all the centralized data centers across the world,” he said, calling it a “$10 trillion question, hundred trillion dollar question.”
He also highlighted scenarios where AI running locally could learn from repeated tasks on individual devices, adapting over time and automating user…
