109.69.5.147 (talk) remove perplexity.ai blog and YouTube video Tags: possible vandalism references removed |
Citation bot (talk | contribs) Altered template type. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Spinixster | Category:Applications of artificial intelligence | #UCB_Category 55/181 |
||
(34 intermediate revisions by 18 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|AI search engine}} |
{{Short description|AI search engine}} |
||
{{COI|date=March 2024}} |
|||
{{Infobox company |
{{Infobox company |
||
| name = Perplexity |
| name = Perplexity |
||
| logo = Perplexity AI logo.svg |
| logo = Perplexity AI logo.svg |
||
| industry = [[ |
| industry = [[Artificial intelligence]] |
||
| founded = August 2022 |
| founded = August 2022 |
||
| hq_location_city = [[San Francisco, California]] |
| hq_location_city = [[San Francisco, California]] |
||
| hq_location_country = USA |
| hq_location_country = USA |
||
| key_people = |
| key_people = Aravind Srinivas ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]]) |
||
| founder = {{Unbulleted list}}Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Aravind Srinivas |
|||
| founder = |
|||
| genre = Search engine |
| genre = Search engine |
||
| num_employees = 55<ref name=":1" /> |
|||
| num_employees = ~40<ref name="kruppa">{{Cite web |last=Kruppa |first=Miles {{!}} Photographs by Carolyn Fong for The Wall Street Journal |date=2024-01-04 |title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search |url=https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jeff-bezos-bets-on-a-google-challenger-using-ai-to-try-to-upend-internet-search-0859bda6 |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}</ref> |
|||
| num_employees_year = 2024 |
| num_employees_year = 2024 |
||
| website = |
| website = {{URL|https://www.perplexity.ai/}} |
||
|{{URL|https://pplx.ai}} }} |
|||
}} |
}} |
||
'''Perplexity AI''' is |
'''Perplexity AI''' is an AI-chatbot-powered research and conversational [[search engine]] that answers queries using [[Natural language generation|natural language predictive text]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shrivastava |first=Rashi |date=April 11, 2024 |title='Like Wikipedia And ChatGPT Had A Kid': Inside The Buzzy AI Startup Coming For Google's Lunch |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2024/04/11/inside-the-buzzy-ai-startup-coming-for-googles-lunch/?sh=3bd446821781 |website=Forbes}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news |title=TNB Tech Minute: Startup Perplexity Challenges Google With AI Search - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts |url=https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/tnb-tech-minute-startup-perplexity-challenges-google-with-ai-search/984362d5-a8f0-48b4-8b55-ad7e570a74d2 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=WSJ |language=en}}</ref> Launched in 2022, Perplexity generates answers using the sources from the [[World Wide Web|web]] and cites links within the text response.<ref name=":0" /> Perplexity works on a [[freemium]] model; the free product uses its Perplexity model based on [[OpenAI]]'s [[GPT-3|GPT-3.5]] model combined with the company's standalone [[large language model]] (LLM) that incorporates [[natural language processing]] (NLP) capabilities, while the paid version Perplexity Pro has access to [[GPT-4]], [[Claude 3]], [[Mistral AI|Mistral]] Large, [[LLaMA#Llama 3|Llama 3]] and an Experimental Perplexity Model.<ref name=":4"/><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in funding round led by Nvidia, Bezos, now valued at $522M |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/entrepreneurship/start-up/story/perplexity-ai-raises-736m-in-funding-round-led-by-nvidia-bezos-now-valued-at-522m-412130-2024-01-06 |website=Business Today |first=Shubham |last=Singh |date=2024-01-06 |access-date=2024-01-15}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Ghaffary |first=Shirin |date=2024-04-23 |title=AI Search Startup Perplexity Valued at $1 Billion in Funding Round |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/ai-search-startup-perplexity-valued-at-1-billion-in-funding-round |access-date= |work=Bloomberg |language=}}</ref> It has garnered about 10 million monthly users.<ref name="wiggers">{{Cite web |last=Wiggers |first=Kyle |date=2024-01-04 |title=AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M |url=https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/04/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-now-valued-at-520m-raises-70m/ |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref> |
||
== History == |
== History == |
||
Perplexity was founded in |
Perplexity was founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski, engineers with backgrounds in back-end systems, AI and machine learning. Yarats, the CTO, was an AI research scientist at [[Meta Platforms|Meta]], while Srinivas, the CEO, worked at [[OpenAI]] as an AI researcher. Ho, the Chief Strategy Officer, worked as an engineer at [[Quora]], then a quantitative trader on Wall Street, and Konwinski was among the founding team at [[Databricks]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-04 |title=AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app |url=https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/ai-powered-search-engine-perplexity-ai-lands-26m-launches-ios-app/ |website=TechCrunch}}</ref> |
||
== Funding == |
|||
As of 2024, Perplexity has raised $100 million in funding, valuing the company at $520 million.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2024-01-06 |title=Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in funding round led by Nvidia, Bezos, now valued at $522M |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/entrepreneurship/start-up/story/perplexity-ai-raises-736m-in-funding-round-led-by-nvidia-bezos-now-valued-at-522m-412130-2024-01-06 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Business Today |language=en}}</ref><ref name="garfinkle">{{cite web|last=Garfinkle|first=Allie|title=Perplexity AI’s challenge to Google hinges on something simple but tough—being the best|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/perplexity-ai-challenge-google-hinges-124622631.html|date=2024-01-11|access-date=2024-01-17|website=[[Yahoo! Finance]]|language=en}}</ref> Additional investors include [[Nvidia]], [[Databricks]], Bessemer Venture Partners, [[Susan Wojcicki]], [[Jeff Dean]], [[Yann LeCun]], [[Andrej Karpathy]] and others.<ref name="wiggers" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=מן |first=יובל |date=2024-01-07 |title=בעזרת בזוס: הסטארט-אפ הקטן שקורא תיגר על אימפריית החיפוש של גוגל |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/digital/technology/article/ryyea8e00p |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=Ynet |language=he}}</ref><ref name="garfinkle"/> It has garnered about 10 million monthly users.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quach |first=Katyanna |title=AI search engine startup Perplexity raises $73.6M in funding |url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/perprexity_ai_search_engine/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}</ref> |
|||
{| class="wikitable" |
|||
|+Funding Rounds |
|||
!Series |
|||
!Date |
|||
!Amount (million $) |
|||
!Lead Investors |
|||
|- |
|||
|A |
|||
|March 2023 |
|||
|25.6<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-04-28 |title=Announcing our series A funding round and mobile app launch |url=https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/announcing-our-series-a-funding-round-and-mobile-app-launch |website=Perplexity.ai}}</ref> |
|||
|[[New Enterprise Associates]] |
|||
|- |
|||
|B |
|||
|January 2024 |
|||
|73.6<ref name=":0" /> |
|||
|[[Institutional Venture Partners]] |
|||
|- |
|||
|B1 |
|||
|April 2024 |
|||
|62.7<ref name=":1" /> |
|||
|[[Daniel Gross (entrepreneur)]] |
|||
|} |
|||
As of 2024, Perplexity has raised $165 million in funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion.<ref name=":1" /> Additional investors include [[Jeff Bezos]], [[Nvidia]], [[Databricks]], [[Bessemer Venture Partners]], [[Susan Wojcicki]], [[Jeff Dean]], [[Yann LeCun]], [[Andrej Karpathy]], [[Nat Friedman]], [[Garry Tan]] and others.<ref name="wiggers" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> |
|||
== Functionality == |
== Functionality == |
||
⚫ | Perplexity's main product is its search engine, which relies on [[natural language processing]].<ref name="wiggers" /> It interprets the context of the user queries to provide a personalised search result. Perplexity summarises the search results and gives a text with inline citations.<ref name="wiggers" /> It prioritises newer sources to avoid outdated information, and allows users to ask follow-up questions that are interpreted in the same context. |
||
{{Advert section|date=March 2024}} |
|||
⚫ | |||
Perplexity uses a [[freemium]] model and provides basic search functionalities and all search modes for free. The 'Focus' mode feature allows users to fine tune search and streamline sources. Offered focus modes include:<ref>{{Cite web |title="What is Search Focus?" |url=https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/what-is-search-focus |website=Perplexity.ai}}</ref> |
|||
Perplexity provides different modes of searching. The "Pro" mode asks the user clarifying questions to refine queries. The "Focus" mode sets a topic for queries. The "Writing" mode generates results without doing the web search.<ref name="wiggers" /> |
|||
* All''':''' Searches the entire internet for answers. |
|||
The user can upload a file for analysis.<ref name="wiggers" /> |
|||
* Academic''':''' Focuses on scholarly articles and academic publications. |
|||
* Writing: Assists with text and code generation without internet access. |
|||
* Wolfram Alpha: Performs computational queries, including mathematical calculations. |
|||
* YouTube: Searches within [[YouTube]], providing timestamps and in-platform video viewing. |
|||
* Reddit: Explores community discussions and opinions on [[Reddit]]. |
|||
Perplexity's paid variant, the "Pro" mode, asks the user clarifying questions to refine queries. It enables users to upload and analyse local files, including images, alongside generating images using AI. Additionally, it provides access to an API.<ref name="wiggers" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=AI |date=October 4, 2023 |title=Introducing pplx-api |url=https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-pplx-api |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311214747/https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-pplx-api |archive-date=March 11, 2024 |access-date=March 27, 2024 |website=perplexity.ai}}</ref> Perplexity launched a new enterprise version of its product in April 2024.<ref name=":1" /> |
|||
== References == |
== References == |
Revision as of 07:23, 7 May 2024
Industry | Artificial intelligence |
---|---|
Genre | Search engine |
Founded | August 2022 |
Founder | Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Aravind Srinivas |
Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Aravind Srinivas (CEO) |
Number of employees | 55[1] (2024) |
Website | www |
Perplexity AI is an AI-chatbot-powered research and conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text.[2][3] Launched in 2022, Perplexity generates answers using the sources from the web and cites links within the text response.[4] Perplexity works on a freemium model; the free product uses its Perplexity model based on OpenAI's GPT-3.5 model combined with the company's standalone large language model (LLM) that incorporates natural language processing (NLP) capabilities, while the paid version Perplexity Pro has access to GPT-4, Claude 3, Mistral Large, Llama 3 and an Experimental Perplexity Model.[3][4][1] It has garnered about 10 million monthly users.[5]
History
Perplexity was founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski, engineers with backgrounds in back-end systems, AI and machine learning. Yarats, the CTO, was an AI research scientist at Meta, while Srinivas, the CEO, worked at OpenAI as an AI researcher. Ho, the Chief Strategy Officer, worked as an engineer at Quora, then a quantitative trader on Wall Street, and Konwinski was among the founding team at Databricks.[6]
Funding
Series | Date | Amount (million $) | Lead Investors |
---|---|---|---|
A | March 2023 | 25.6[7] | New Enterprise Associates |
B | January 2024 | 73.6[4] | Institutional Venture Partners |
B1 | April 2024 | 62.7[1] | Daniel Gross (entrepreneur) |
As of 2024, Perplexity has raised $165 million in funding, valuing the company at over $1 billion.[1] Additional investors include Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Susan Wojcicki, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, Garry Tan and others.[5][7][1]
Functionality
Perplexity's main product is its search engine, which relies on natural language processing.[5] It interprets the context of the user queries to provide a personalised search result. Perplexity summarises the search results and gives a text with inline citations.[5] It prioritises newer sources to avoid outdated information, and allows users to ask follow-up questions that are interpreted in the same context.
Perplexity uses a freemium model and provides basic search functionalities and all search modes for free. The 'Focus' mode feature allows users to fine tune search and streamline sources. Offered focus modes include:[8]
- All: Searches the entire internet for answers.
- Academic: Focuses on scholarly articles and academic publications.
- Writing: Assists with text and code generation without internet access.
- Wolfram Alpha: Performs computational queries, including mathematical calculations.
- YouTube: Searches within YouTube, providing timestamps and in-platform video viewing.
- Reddit: Explores community discussions and opinions on Reddit.
Perplexity's paid variant, the "Pro" mode, asks the user clarifying questions to refine queries. It enables users to upload and analyse local files, including images, alongside generating images using AI. Additionally, it provides access to an API.[5][9] Perplexity launched a new enterprise version of its product in April 2024.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Ghaffary, Shirin (2024-04-23). "AI Search Startup Perplexity Valued at $1 Billion in Funding Round". Bloomberg.
- ^ Shrivastava, Rashi (April 11, 2024). "'Like Wikipedia And ChatGPT Had A Kid': Inside The Buzzy AI Startup Coming For Google's Lunch". Forbes.
- ^ a b "TNB Tech Minute: Startup Perplexity Challenges Google With AI Search - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b c Singh, Shubham (2024-01-06). "Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in funding round led by Nvidia, Bezos, now valued at $522M". Business Today. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
- ^ a b c d e Wiggers, Kyle (2024-01-04). "AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app". TechCrunch. 2023-04-04.
- ^ a b "Announcing our series A funding round and mobile app launch". Perplexity.ai. 2023-04-28.
- ^ ""What is Search Focus?"". Perplexity.ai.
- ^ Team, AI (October 4, 2023). "Introducing pplx-api". perplexity.ai. Archived from the original on March 11, 2024. Retrieved March 27, 2024.