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Perplexity

🌎 perplexity.ai

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question. It is designed to power curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources, utilizing advanced technologies such as natural language processing and machine learning to deliver precise and relevant search results.

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Perplexity - Latest News and Updates

• Perplexity partnered with American University's Kogod School of Business to provide students access to Perplexity Enterprise Pro AI.
• Motorola plans to use Perplexity AI over Google's Gemini for its phones, starting with the Razr series, and is developing a custom user interface to market it actively.
• Perplexity is facing a trademark lawsuit from Perplexity Solved Solutions over the use of the name 'Perplexity' in branding and marketing.
• Perplexity is set to replace Gemini as the default digital assistant on Motorola phones, with a potential deal with Samsung still in progress.
• Perplexity has partnered with Vespa.ai to bring its search function in-house, enhancing the speed, accuracy, and relevance of search results for over 15 million monthly users.

• Perplexity acquired the Seattle-based startup Carbon in December 2024 to enhance its capabilities in searching private data sources.
• Perplexity processes over 400 million search queries monthly, achieved $100 million in revenue in 2025, and holds a 6.2% market share in the AI search market.
• Perplexity is currently seeking a Customer Success and Support Operations Leader in Japan.
• Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, used the company's AI chatbot to explore conspiracy theories about Subhas Chandra Bose's death, sparking online debate about AI's role in historical discourse.
• Perplexity announced SOC 2 Type II compliance, enhancing data protection standards for its customers as of April 18, 2025.

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