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Perplexity

AI-powered answer engine and productivity platform

perplexity.ai

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2022
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 500–1,500
Industry: Online Services

Last updated October 12

Latest news about Perplexity

In short: Perplexity won Amazon appeals rulings, open-sourced SPACE, expanded sovereign deployments, and eyed a $30B Nvidia investment.

Company announcements

June 1 Perplexity

Perplexity introduces Search as Code for AI agents

It writes Python to call the search stack directly, improving latency and cost. Available in the Perplexity Agent API.

May 20 Perplexity

Perplexity improves search with query-aware compression

They cut context tokens up to 70% while enhancing answer quality and vital content per snippet by 63%.

May 7 Perplexity

Perplexity releases Personal Computer in new Mac app

It runs tasks across local files, Mac apps, web, and servers autonomously. The old app will deprecate soon.

May 6 Perplexity

Perplexity develops ROSE inference engine

ROSE serves models from embeddings to trillion-parameter LLMs. CuTeDSL integration builds specialized GPU kernels faster for peak performance on NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.

Media coverage

October 12 Law360

Reddit Fights Proskauer's 'Hot Potato' AI Client Bid In IP Suit - Law360

Reddit Inc. has urged a New York federal judge to block its former law firm Proskauer Rose from defending Perplexity AI in Reddit's suit over...

October 11 Crypto Briefing

Sovereign wealth funds want Perplexity's AI on their own hardware, with no data access for Perplexity

Sovereign wealth funds want Perplexity's AI running on their own hardware with zero data access, signaling a major shift in how AI is deployed.

September 29 Mealey's

9th Circuit Won’t Rehear Perplexity Agentic AI Vacated Injunction Ruling

September 29, 2026, 9:53 AM EDT SAN FRANCISCO — A ruling vacating an injunction prohibiting Perplexity AI Inc.’s agentic artificial intelligence from accessing Amazon.com Services...

September 25 Reuters

Perplexity AI sued by startup for allegedly stealing 'wake word' technology

Startup DaVoice has sued Perplexity AI in California federal court for allegedly stealing trade ‌secrets related to "wake word" technology for AI assistants.

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