AI search startup Perplexity is set to raise $500 million at a $9 billion valuation, tripling its worth from a few months ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Reported by Berber Jin for the Wall Street Journal, this would be Perplexity’s fourth funding round this year, and the company has faced criticism from …
AI search engine Perplexity has written a blog post in response to a lawsuit filed by media company News Corp, which accuses the startup of copyright infringement. According to Perplexity’s Maxwell Zeff, media companies wish this technology didn’t exist and that they could live in a world where facts are owned by corporations. Perplexity claims …
Dow Jones & Co. and the New York Post are suing the AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, according to Variety. The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges Perplexity illegally copies copyrighted works to divert readers and revenue from publishers. Perplexity’s platform allows …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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.