A US appeals court puts on hold a judge's earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic AI shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
A U.S. appeals court has put a California judge's ruling on hold that had blocked Perplexity AI from using its artificial-intelligence-powered …
Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of “bullying” via an “aggressive legal threat” that demands it stop Comet Assistant purchases for users, who “love this experience”
The point of technology is to make life better for people. Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Comet's Agentic Shopping Capabilities M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : AI is Breaking the Bro...
Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine
Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers …
How VC firm 1789 Capital hit $1B+ in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity
& has now topped $1 billion. #WasteFraudAbuse https://www.reuters.com/... Bluesky: Wendy Siegelman / @wendysiegelman : 1789 Capital tops $1 billion in assets - firm was founded by Omeed Malik, Chris B...
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam Spatacco / Motley Fo...
Sources: Apple execs have held internal discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech
Apple Inc. executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI …
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
Source: Perplexity has discussed raising as much as $500M to $1B in a new round that would double its valuation to $18B; its current ARR is nearly $100M
Doubling In Just 4 Months PYMNTS.com : Report: Perplexity in Talks to Raise Up to $1 Billion Archanarani / Verdict : Perplexity AI in talks to secure up to $1bn funding Jon Swartz / Techstrong.ai : Pe...
Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship”
DeepSeek-R1 is a fully open-weight large language model (LLM) … Unite.AI : DeepSeek's R1: A Useful Reminder Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Perplexity Releases Censorship-Free Version of China's De...
Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal to ByteDance, allowing for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO
Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.