Perplexity AI released two open-weight late-interaction embedding models, pplx-embed-v2-late, in 0.6B and 9B parameter versions on Hugging Face on October 7, 2026, handling retrieval across text, imag…
Perplexity Computer, the agentic AI tool built by Perplexity AI, now generates interactive charts and visualizations for financial data using TradingView charts, the company announced via X. The addit…
Perplexity AI launched a free Fast Search feature for the Hermes Agent platform, available across all Nous Portal tiers, according to NousResearch. The feature is intended to make web searches quicker…
Amazon blocked Meta Platforms' Muse AI agent from its retail site on Sunday, September 20, after Meta declined Amazon's request to remove the bot, Amazon spokesperson Lara Hendrickson said. Muse, intr…
Firebird, a San Francisco-based startup founded by people of Armenian descent, began operating a data center in Hrazdan, Armenia, in August that is set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 Nvid…
DumbDetector, a new community-driven platform, launched to aggregate anonymous reports of quality drops, errors, or instability in AI tools, monitoring products from Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Google,…
Perplexity AI published a blog post detailing techniques for optimizing on-device inference on Apple Silicon, focusing on running large language models efficiently on Macs. The post covers quantizatio…
Emil Michael, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, sold his Perplexity AI stake in June for between $5 million and $25 million, according to financial disclosures rev…
Perplexity AI's recommendations are heavily influenced by just three programmatic SEO websites, which together host 215,128 unique software pages, according to an analysis of its retrieval pipeline. T…
Perplexity AI is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Agent Harness) in San Francisco with a salary range of $220k–405k/yr, on-site and staff level. The role involves evolving the co…
Perplexity AI launched Portable Computer, a local-first AI agent that runs on NVIDIA's DGX Spark hardware and processes tasks on-device before reaching the cloud, available now for Pro and Max subscri…
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…
Nvidia is in discussions with Perplexity AI about a licensing agreement that could value the AI search startup at over $30 billion, a roughly 57x jump from its approximately $520 million Series B valu…
Proof launched x401 v0.1.0 on June 25, 2026, an open, issuer-neutral HTTP protocol that uses a 4-node delegation chain to verify the identity and authorization behind AI agents, addressing a gap in ex…
In a head-to-head test of Deep Research modes in ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI, and Grok, ChatGPT's full version produced the most detailed report but took 49 minutes, while its lightweight ve…
The Ninth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI, ruling that its agentic Assistant does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because users, not Perplexity, access Ama…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Perplexity AI's Comet browser does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), agreeing with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) that users,…
Perplexity AI faces a motion to dismiss in a copyright lawsuit, while Reddit's attempt to dismiss a similar case was rejected and News Corp has filed a lawsuit against Brave, highlighting the escalati…
Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence startup, lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Reddit, a social news platform, over allegations that Perplexity scraped Reddit content without permission…