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Perplexity

AI-powered answer engine

perplexity.ai

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2022
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 200–1,500

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Latest news about Perplexity

In short: Perplexity launched its 'Computer' agentic platform and raised $200 million while facing copyright lawsuits from CNN, Reddit, and major publishers.

Company announcements

June 1 Perplexity

Perplexity introduces Search as Code for AI agents

It writes Python to call the search stack directly, improving latency and cost. Available in the Perplexity Agent API.

May 20 Perplexity

Perplexity improves search with query-aware compression

They cut context tokens up to 70% while enhancing answer quality and vital content per snippet by 63%.

May 7 Perplexity

Perplexity releases Personal Computer in new Mac app

It runs tasks across local files, Mac apps, web, and servers autonomously. The old app will deprecate soon.

May 6 Perplexity

Perplexity develops ROSE inference engine

ROSE serves models from embeddings to trillion-parameter LLMs. CuTeDSL integration builds specialized GPU kernels faster for peak performance on NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.

Media coverage

June 22 Yahoo Finance

NYT CEO confident company will win legal battles against OpenAI/Microsoft, Perplexity

CANNES, France — The New York Times is confident in its AI legal fights and believes the law is on i...

June 21 MSN

CNN accuses Perplexity of copying articles without permission in new lawsuit

CNN Accuses Perplexity of Copying Articles Without Permission in New Lawsuit ...

June 11 Reuters

US appeals court tests limits of 1986 computer fraud law in Amazon-Perplexity AI dispute

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday considered the novel issue of whether Perplexity AI can be held responsible for its "agentic" AI system allegedly accessing...

June 10 Yahoo Finance

...Reactions From Daniel Newman, Mark Gurman And The Kobeissi Letter — Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas Said This

OpenAI’s IPO filing has drawn reactions from prominent analysts, commentators and AI leaders who see...

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