AI search engine Perplexity raises new round of funding

AI startup Perplexity is in funding talks to double its valuation to $8 billion or more. The company is looking to raise around $500 million in its fourth round of funding within a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move comes on the heels of major investments in OpenAI and is intended to …

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Perplexity adds Internal Knowledge Search

Perplexity has launched an Internal Knowledge Search feature that allows Pro and Enterprise Pro users to search both their internal files and the web from a single platform. Users can upload important files, limited to 500 for Enterprise Pro, in various formats like Excel, Word, and PDFs, VentureBeat reports. The aim is to streamline the …

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New York Times sends Perplexity cease and desist notice

The New York Times has demanded that the AI startup Perplexity cease using its content. According to a Wall Street Journal report the newspaper accuses Perplexity of copyright infringement. Perplexity uses the Times’ content for AI-generated search results. The Times is demanding compensation and the surrender of illegal profits. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said they …

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AWS investigating Perplexity

Amazon is currently investigating whether the Perplexity AI search engine violates the Amazon Web Services Terms of Service. Perplexity is alleged to crawl parts of sites that are blocked via Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt). Read more about the allegations here.

AI search engine Perplexity under fire

AI startup Perplexity is under fire. Several media outlets have accused the company of copying content from websites without permission. Especially controversial: Perplexity is said to have bypassed blocks meant to prevent this. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas denies the accusations. He speaks of misunderstandings and refers vaguely to the use of third-party providers. At the …

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Perplexity introduces “Pages”

Perplexity has introduced a new feature called “Pages,” which uses AI to automatically create reports on a topic. Pages creates a custom website for which it researches information and writes the text. However, the feature has been criticized for copying content from news sites such as Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg without giving sufficient credit, Forbes …

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Perplexica is an open source AI search engine

Perplexica is an open source search engine with AI support, similar to Perplexity. It provides answers with references. Once installed, it can use local language models such as Llama 3 or Mixtral.

Five chatbots compared

Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, …

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AI search engine Perplexity valued at more than $1 billion

AI-powered search tool Perplexity closed a new round of funding and is valued at more than $1 billion. With the new capital and a new Enterprise Pro Plan, the company plans to expand globally and offer its secure, AI-powered search service to enterprises.

What AI search engines like Perplexity mean for content marketing

Content marketing often focuses on topics that appeal to the widest possible audience. In this way, target audiences discover the company’s website and, for example, subscribe to a newsletter in the next step. The content is aimed at the beginning of the customer journey. However, these topics are often quite banal. As a result, it …

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