Releases

Perplexity launched Computer, an agentic workspace that coordinates models, web search, tools, connected apps and code to complete knowledge-work tasks.

Perplexity launched Model Council, allowing users to query multiple frontier models and synthesize their agreements and disagreements.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Perplexity released BrowseSafe research on detecting and mitigating threats in AI browsers.

Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI assistants to personalize future interactions.

Perplexity relaunched Shopping as a free personalized conversational shopping experience with native purchasing.

Perplexity launched a native Android version of the Comet AI browser.

Perplexity announced a partnership to provide its services to United States government users.

Perplexity added stronger visibility, confirmations and user controls for Comet Assistant actions.

Perplexity released a redesigned Comet Assistant with improved browsing and task execution.

Perplexity introduced Privacy Snapshot to show users how Comet and its assistant handle data and permissions.

Perplexity launched a free AI-powered patent search and analysis experience.

Perplexity broadened public availability of the Comet browser beyond its initial subscriber and waitlist rollout.

Perplexity announced the initial media partners participating in Comet Plus.

Perplexity launched a developer Search API exposing its real-time web index, retrieval and content extraction.

Perplexity expanded its enterprise platform with stronger knowledge connectors, administration and collaborative workflows.

Perplexity raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation.

Perplexity launched a secure government offering with public-sector procurement and deployment options.

Perplexity introduced Comet Plus, a subscription program designed to fund participating publishers and premium content.

Perplexity introduced managed Comet browser access for Enterprise Pro customers.

Perplexity submitted a nonbinding $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser; Google had not offered Chrome for sale.

Perplexity added OpenAI's GPT-OSS models immediately upon their release.

Perplexity integrated OpenTable so users could find and book restaurant reservations from answers.

Gannett joined Perplexity's publisher program, broadening licensed news participation.

Perplexity raised approximately $100 million at an $18 billion valuation.

Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-native browser with an embedded assistant, initially for Max subscribers and waitlisted users.

Perplexity launched Max, a premium subscription tier with expanded access to frontier models and new products.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by Accel at a $14 billion valuation.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Perplexity published work on accelerating Sonar inference through speculative decoding.

Perplexity expanded Finance with richer market data and research tools for investors.

Perplexity launched Labs for creating reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and lightweight applications from research.

Perplexity expanded free and paid plan capabilities, including greater access to advanced search, files and models.

SAP partnered with Perplexity to add real-time web answers to the Joule enterprise assistant.

Perplexity partnered with Wiley to make trusted educational content available through AI-powered search.

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Perplexity proposed combining with TikTok's US operations to create a new American company and make its recommendation system transparent.

Perplexity improved Sonar, Sonar Pro and reasoning models while reducing API prices.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.

Perplexity launched an Android assistant able to answer questions and perform actions across supported apps.

Perplexity launched Sonar and made Sonar Pro generally available through its API platform for cited real-time answers.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by IVP at a $9 billion valuation.

Perplexity acquired Carbon, a startup specializing in connecting AI systems to enterprise data sources; terms were not disclosed.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.