Releases

Perplexity launched an AI shopping experience with product cards, recommendations, visual search and merchant integrations.

Perplexity announced an experiment with sponsored follow-up questions while stating that advertising would not alter answer content.

Perplexity launched a dedicated sourced hub for the 2024 United States election.

Dow Jones and the New York Post sued Perplexity, alleging copyright and trademark violations involving publisher content.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.

Perplexity launched a publisher program with revenue sharing, API access and technology support.

Perplexity collaborated with Amazon Web Services to launch and scale Enterprise Pro.

Perplexity upgraded Pro Search for more advanced problem-solving, multi-step reasoning and research.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Investigations alleged that Perplexity accessed publisher content despite robots.txt restrictions; Perplexity disputed aspects of the reporting.

Forbes alleged that Perplexity had reproduced reporting without adequate attribution, beginning a broader public dispute over publisher content use.

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

Perplexity raised $62.7 million in a Series B extension led by Daniel Gross, taking its valuation above $1 billion.

Perplexity launched Enterprise Pro, its first business subscription with organizational search, security and data controls.

Perplexity partnered with SK Telecom to distribute Perplexity Pro to the telecom company's users.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Perplexity introduced PPLX 7B Online and PPLX 70B Online, language models grounded with current web search.

Perplexity launched pplx-api with hosted access to its PPLX chat models.

Perplexity released open-weight PPLX 7B Chat and PPLX 70B Chat models.

Perplexity released an official Chrome extension that could set Perplexity as the browser's default search engine.

Perplexity introduced its paid Pro subscription with expanded searches and access to advanced models.

Perplexity introduced Copilot, a guided multi-step research mode later renamed Pro Search.

Perplexity launched its native Android application.

Perplexity launched its native conversational answer-engine application for iPhone and iPad.

Perplexity raised $25.6 million in a Series A led by New Enterprise Associates.

Perplexity launched its citation-first conversational answer engine for real-time web search.

Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors.

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski founded Perplexity in San Francisco.