Chennai: In a remarkable story of academic excellence and entrepreneurial success, 31-year-old Arvind Srinivas, a native of Chennai, has been named the country’s youngest billionaire. The founder and CEO of the AI startup Perplexity, Srinivas has secured his place on the M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025 with a staggering net worth estimated at ₹21,190 crore, cementing his status as a leading figure in the global artificial intelligence landscape.

Born on June 7, 1994, Arvind Srinivas’s journey to the pinnacle of the tech world is rooted in a deep passion for science. His academic foundation was laid at IIT Madras, where he engaged with advanced topics in Reinforcement Learning. He later earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021, with research spa

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