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 …
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 …
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.
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, …
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.
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 …