Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas：单个重度用户的算力消耗可比小型团队
Perplexity 老板聊了个有意思的现象：有用户每月烧 1 万美元跑 agent 业务，Meta 工程师人均年花 1000 万美元用编程工具，讲透 agent 时代的新算力经济学。
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas 在《20VC》播客中表示，Meta 等公司为每个工程师每年在编程工具上花费约 1000 万美元。Perplexity Computer 上有用户每月消费超过 1 万美元，靠内部运行的 agent loops 支撑业务。Perplexity 公司内部也有员工搭建多智能体层级架构，其用量远超公司对普通用户的预期。
Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity): how a single power user can now consume as much compute as an entire small team.
"There are real engineers at Meta and other companies spending around $10 million a year per engineer on these coding tools.
There are users in Perplexity Computer, who spends upwards of $10,000 a month. Their business runs using agent loops that are running inside these harnesses.
Even internally inside our own company, there are some people who have set up these kinds of multi-agent hierarchies and agent loops that look like their own software architecture. I often ask these people to come explain to the rest of the company, “Hey, what are you doing with these tools? You clearly are consuming them way more than what we thought the average person in the company would do.”
--- The old software instinct was to chase a billion people doing small actions.
Agentic AI changes that math because one skilled operator can create a stream of machine work that runs all day.
---- On "20VC with Harry Stebbings" YouTube channel ( @HarryStebbings ), link in comment
