New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- Elon Musk recently called the United States Agency for International Development a "criminal organisation" as US President Donald Trump attempts to shut it down in the coming days. Amid the ongoing crackdown on USAID by Trump and Musk, Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, Aravind Srinivas, has challenged the tech billionaire of stopping him from securing funding from USAID.

"Considering raising $500B from USAID. Funding secured. Stop me if you can @elonmusk What is USAID? [sic]" wrote Srinivas in a post on X.

Arvind Srinivas's post on X sparked massive buzz around his stance on US government's shift on USAID. Many even criticised him for his remark.

"They have well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority [...