Perplexity's Search API took first, second and third place in Artificial Analysis' August 27th Search Index test, with its medium setting scoring 80 at about $0.091 per task, beating rivals while land…
Perplexity launched Portable Computer on Tuesday, moving its Computer agent stack onto NVIDIA's DGX Spark so files, models and most tool execution can stay on user-controlled hardware, with work compl…
Nvidia is in discussions to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation exceeding $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a shift from licensing to equity ownership. Perplexity's ARR has grown f…
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation of more than $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a jump of over 50% from the startup's $20 billion valuation in June. Perple…
AI startups that build on foundation models are not necessarily doomed, despite warnings from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that the company will 'steamroll' wrappers when models improve. Perplexity CEO Aravi…
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on August 4 vacated a preliminary injunction that had restricted Perplexity's Comet browser from operating inside password-protected Amazon accounts, ruling tha…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said the IT industry, including Zoho, has largely stopped creating new jobs, with funds that would have gone to hiring now consumed by AI and data center costs due to rising…
Perplexity open-sourced Numbat on July 29th, a Go binary that monitors and can block risky AI agents on employee computers, addressing security risks from agents that run commands and access credentia…
On July 20, a federal judge gave final approval to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history, requiring Anthropic to pay $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books it pulled from pirate librarie…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the 2,000-year-old Mahabharata epic contains descriptions of self-guided weapons and access-control problems that map directly onto modern AI risk m…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted on July 11, 2026 that top-tier AI model costs could fall 3-4x within six months and that a locally-runnable Opus-grade model would arrive within 12 months. Y …
Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained version of Z.AI's GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-source model, that matches Claude Opus 4.8 performance at one-third the cost by using an advisor tool…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the US remains the best place for startups due to its risk-seeking culture and encouragement of new ideas, despite debates over the fading American …
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the future of AI depends on maximizing economic value per unit of energy, not building larger data centers. The company reported 45 million monthly active users an…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that US export controls on advanced chips are inadvertently accelerating Chinese AI innovation, citing DeepSeek's advances in memory-efficient models. He warn…
Perplexity built a context graph called Brain for its Computer agent, storing sessions, connectors, and files as a traceable graph to improve memory and provenance. The architecture led to a 25% lift …
Perplexity AI's new product, Computer for Enterprise, deployed as a Slack integration, processed over 16,000 queries in four weeks, completing the equivalent of 3.25 years of human work and saving the…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says fear of failure is 'the stupidest thing' holding people back, urging a focus on offense and risk-taking. Srinivas, who grew up in a lower-middle-class family in In…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on the "20VC" podcast that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang taught him to "always stay on your toes" with a mentality that Nvidia could be "30 days away from going out of b…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared two founder lessons from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the '20VC' podcast, emphasizing Huang's mentality of being 30 days from going out of …