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Andy Konwinski

Co-founder, Perplexity

Known asAmerican computer scientist and businessman (born 1983)
RolesCo-founder, Perplexity
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
LinksWikipedia · perplexity.ai

About Andy Konwinski

Andy Konwinski is a co-founder of Perplexity.

Perplexity: AI answer engine; post-trains its own Sonar models.

Andy studied at University of California, Berkeley.

Today Perplexity ranks #3 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 58 research roles open, 29 public models released in the last year and 16 investment vehicles named after it filed with the SEC in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Andy is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Andy, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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