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 AI powered research/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 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.[3][5]
History
Perplexity was founded in August 2022 by Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Aravind Srinivas.[6] Srinivas previously worked at OpenAI and now serves as Perplexity's CEO.[7]
As of 2024, Perplexity has raised $100 million in funding, valuing the company at $520 million.[3][8][9] Additional investors include Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Susan Wojcicki, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy and others.[7][10][9] It has garnered about 10 million monthly users.[11]
Functionality
The main product of the Perplexity AI is its search engine, which relies on natural language processing.[7] It interprets the context of the user queries to provide a personalized search result. Perplexity summarizes the search results and gives a text with inline citations.[7] It prioritizes newer sources to avoid outdated information. It allows users to ask follow-up questions that are interpreted in the same context.
Perplexity uses the freemium model and provides basic search functionalities for free. It provides all its search modes for free. Popular modes include the default mode "Focus" which generates for topic-based web search, and the "Writing" mode which generates results without using web research.
Perplexity's paid variant, the "Pro" mode, asks the user clarifying questions to refine queries. It enables users to upload and analyze local files, including images, alongside generating images using AI. Additionally, it provides access to an API.[7]
References
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- ^ "AI Search Startup Perplexity Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Data — The Information".
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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.
- ^ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/this-one-year-old-startup-is-hoping-to-be-the-next-google-can-they-succeed
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in a 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.