Janneta Tabakov from Perplexity on Pitt HexAI

Janneta Tabakov, Enterprise Growth Lead with Perplexity who focuses on AI in biotech and biopharma speaks with Pitt HexAI Podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré about her work at Perplexity, a popular and fast-growing new AI-powered answer engine that’s redefining search and information discovery in the AI era. Janneta and Jordan discuss how Perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/) makes information discovery clear, trustworthy, and accessible, especially in fields like health, medicine, and science and they touch on Janneta’s prior work at Arima Genomics, the field of 3D genomics, Hi-C technology and the visualization and mapping of DNA structures.The episode is geared towards introducing students and healthcare professionals to new AI-powered search tools and information discovery processes. The episode highlights how tools like Perplexity are advancing explainable AI in information discovery by making the search and synthesis process transparent, interactive, and easy to understand, helping users not only find answers, but also understand the reasoning and evidence behind them.Janneta and Jordan also discuss the accelerating pace of AI innovation and the dynamic momentum that startups like Perplexity are driving in the industry, setting new benchmarks in healthcare and research.