Industry | artificial intelligence |
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Genre | Search engine |
Founded | August 2022 |
Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Aravind Srinivas (CEO) |
Number of employees | ~40[1] (2024) |
Website |
Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine that answers queries using natural language predictive text.[2] Launched in 2022, Perplexity generates answers using the sources from the web and cites links within the text response.[3] Perplexity works on 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, and an Experimental Perplexity Model.[2][4]
History
Perplexity was founded in August 2022 by Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Aravind Srinivas.[5] Srinivas previously worked at OpenAI and now serves as Perplexity's CEO.[6]
As of 2024, Perplexity has raised $100 million in funding, valuing the company at $520 million.[2][7][8] Additional investors include Nvidia, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Susan Wojcicki, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy and others.[6][9][8] It has garnered about 10 million monthly users.[10]
Functionality
The main product of the Perplexity AI is its search engine, which relies on natural language processing.[6] It interprets the context of the user queries in order to provide more personalized search results. Perplexity summarizes the search results and gives a text with inline citations.[6] It prioritizes newer sources to avoid outdated information. The user can ask follow-up questions and Perplexity will interpret them in the context of the user's previous queries.[6]
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.[6]
The user can upload a file for analysis.[6]
References
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- ^ "कभी किया था गूगल के साथ काम , फिर खड़ी की 4300 करोड़ की कंपनी, जाने इसके पीछे की पूरी कहानी". samacharnama.com (in Hindi). 2024-01-13. Retrieved 2024-01-14.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "AI Search Startup Perplexity Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Data — The Information".
- ^ a b c d e f g Wiggers, Kyle (2024-01-04). "AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in funding round led by Nvidia, Bezos, now valued at $522M". Business Today. 2024-01-06. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b Garfinkle, Allie (2024-01-11). "Perplexity AI's challenge to Google hinges on something simple but tough—being the best". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 2024-01-17.
- ^ מן, יובל (2024-01-07). "בעזרת בזוס: הסטארט-אפ הקטן שקורא תיגר על אימפריית החיפוש של גוגל". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ Quach, Katyanna. "AI search engine startup Perplexity raises $73.6M in funding". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.