🦄 Perplexity AI is now worth over $1 Billion: the search engine got a thumbs up from Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA
Perplexity AI, which quickly and accurately finds answers to your questions online, has become a unicorn. The company's valuation has exceeded $1 billion. This happened thanks to a new investment round of $63 million, which saw the participation of IT giants like Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, and billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller.
📈 According to Perplexity AI's founder, Aravind Srinivas, since the company announced its new funding round in January 2024, Perplexity's popularity has risen to 169 million monthly queries. Over the past 15 months, the service has answered 1 billion questions.
🔍 What Does Perplexity AI Do?
The Perplexity AI search engine independently processes search results for your query and provides a direct and accurate answer with citations and links to sources. There's no need to click on different links and compare answers. The search engine looks like a chatbot, understands natural language, and can clarify context with prompt questions. The company's founder discussed the service's operation in more detail in his interview.
Perplexity AI is also famous for competing not just with anyone but with Google, and is rapidly gaining an audience: for example, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that he uses Perplexity AI "almost every day."
✔️ Our regular readers know about another useful feature of Perplexity AI: in its virtual lab, you can use the latest open-source AIs like Mistral and Llama 3 for free — just choose the model from the list.
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