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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Genre | Search engine |
| Founded | August 2022 |
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| Headquarters | , US |
Key people | Aravind Srinivas (CEO) |
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Number of employees | 100 [1][2] (2024) |
| Website | perplexity.ai |
Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine that uses large language models (LLMs) to answer queries. Its developer, Perplexity AI, Inc., is based in San Francisco, California.
Founded in 2022, Perplexity generates answers using sources from the web and cites links within the text response.[3] Perplexity works on a freemium model; the free product uses the company's standalone LLM, while the paid version Perplexity Pro has access to GPT-4, Claude 3.5, Grok-2, Llama 3 and in-house Perplexity LLMs.[4][3][2] In Q1 2024, it had reached 15 million monthly users.[5]
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- ^ a b Singh, Shubham (January 6, 2024). "Perplexity AI raises $73.6M in funding round led by Nvidia, Bezos, now valued at $522M". Business Today. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- ^ "Startup Perplexity Challenges Google With AI Search". The Wall Street Journal. January 4, 2024. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Goode, Lauren (March 21, 2024). "Perplexity's Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They're Competing to Reinvent Search". Wired (magazine). Archived from the original on July 16, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
The startup says its user base has grown to 15 million active users, growing 50 percent from the 10 million reported just two months ago.