Perplexity AI hopes to take on Google with its chatbot-style, AI-powered search engine. The company was founded in August 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. By March 2023, Perplexity stated it had reached 2 million monthly active users in the four months since publicly launching. As of Jan 2024, Perplexity's AI "answer engine" is used by about 10 million people every month.
Perplexity AI has raising over $100M in funding from notable investors like Jeff Bezos, Tobias Lutke (Amazon), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), NVIDIA, and more, reaching a $520M valuation in their most recent Series B raise.
About the Perplexity.
- Industry: AI
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, AI/ML, Generative AI, GenAI, Search
- Business Model: B2B
- Customer Model: Other
- Website: www.perplexity.ai
- Legal Name: Perplexity AI
Data updated as of February 26, 2025.