ARAVIND SRINIVAS. : INDIA’S YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE

By Anshika Khera

Aravind Srinivas , the 31-year old Chennai born AI entrepreneur has entered the M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025 as the country’s youngest billionaire. With an estimated net worth of Rs 21,190 crore, Srinivas, the founder and CEO of the AI startup Perplexity, is now a prominent name in the tech world, especially in generative AI. He developed an early interest in science. He was born on June 7,1994.

Even while studying at IIT Madras, he taught courses on reinforcement learning and advanced reinforcement learning. According to his LinkedIn profile, he then pursued a PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, completing it in 2021. His research spanned contrastive learning for computer vision, reinforcement learning, transformer-based models for image generation, image recognition and video generation. He also taught Deep Unsupervised Learning during the Spring semesters of 2020 and 2021. Since January 2023, Srinivas has also been an angel investor in promising AI startups, including ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech platform, and Suno, which develops text-to-music tools.According to a report in ET, he is also considering establishing an engineering team in India, either in Bengaluru or Hyderabad, while being open to partnerships in travel, shopping, education and healthcare