India, Feb. 10 -- Indian-origin CEO of artificial intelligence firm Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas, challenged billionaire Elon Musk a few days back to stop him from raising funding from United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a stunt that made him appear in headlines all over the world.

The challenge came after USAID faced an unprecedented shutdown days after President Donald Trump labelled the agency "corrupt."

"Considering raising $500B from USAID. Funding secured. Stop me if you can @elonmusk," he wrote a post on X.

Aravind Srinivas is an Indian-origin engineer and entrepreneur who is the CEO and cofounder of Perplexity, an artificial intelligence-powered search engine which he describes as "fastest way to get ...