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Perplexity launched in 2022 as an AI-powered search alternative — instead of returning a list of links, it generates an answer from web sources and cites them inline. The product targets users who would otherwise paste questions into ChatGPT or run a Google search. The company raised over $500 million, reached a multi-billion-dollar valuation, and added features like Pro Search, Spaces (collaborative threads), and Comet (a browser extension). Perplexity's relationship with publishers has been contentious — Forbes, Wired, and others accused the company of scraping content without proper attribution, leading to deals (with Time, Fortune, Der Spiegel) that share ad revenue with publishers. We cover Perplexity product changes, the publisher lawsuits and partnerships, search-quality benchmarks, and how the search-vs-chat boundary keeps moving.
Visual model exploits similarity of 打, 拍, 拉; text model starts from embeddings
Being able to see is not the same as being able to read. A new comparison of training methods for Chinese characters proves it.
AI browsers cut 15-30 minutes per document when summarizing long reports
The promise of AI is often vague. The promise of an AI browser is brutally specific: give it a long document and it will give you 30 minutes of your...
Adobe to buy Semrush for USD 1.9 bn, merging AI tools with SEO platform
Adobe just paid $1.9 billion to solve a new kind of marketing blindness. The problem isn’t that brands can’t see their customers, it’s that they...
Perplexity Comet Now Public, Automates 7 Key Business Tasks
Skepticism was my first reaction when I heard about Perplexity Comet. Another browser, I thought.
Amazon AGI Lab Head David Luan Departs After Leading Nova Act Development
David Luan is leaving Amazon’s AGI lab. The executive who spearheaded the Nova Act browser agent just walked out the door, and his own words tell us...
LWiAI Podcast #235: Sonnet 4.6, Deep‑Thinking Tokens, Anthropic vs Pentagon
It is rare to hear a company’s CEO stare down the Pentagon in public. But that is exactly what Anthropic’s Dario Amodei did this week, insisting that...
Perplexity's New Embedding Model Outperforms Voyage With 8x Smaller Vectors
Perplexity Research and the vector database company turbopuffer have put out pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model built for...
Perplexity's BrowseSafe patches agent gaps after Brave finds Comet flaw
In August 2025, Brave exposed a quiet but devastating flaw in Comet: hidden commands, buried in web pages and comments, that tricked AI assistants...
Fish Audio raises USD 50M seed for AI voice tools targeting creators and enterprises
Fish Audio has closed a $50 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners,...
Perplexity launches ‘Computer’ AI agent for enterprise, vs Microsoft, Salesforce
Perplexity is launching an AI agent for businesses called Computer. It is a direct competitor to products from Microsoft and Salesforce.
TinyFish Free Search: 90.5% Signal Tops Exa 89.7% as News Drives Gap
TinyFish put a number on something most AI teams never itemize: the cost of letting an agent read a live webpage.
AI startup revenue reaches USD 80 billion; Anthropic, OpenAI claim 89%
The AI gold rush is real, but the map is a lie. Two companies own the mine. Annual revenue for top AI startups just hit eighty billion dollars.
Apple's Siri AI Launches After Delays, Taps Personal Context
Siri finally works the way Apple said it would three years ago. The AI assistant landed in the consumer beta of iOS 27 this July, after enough delays...
Perplexity's Portable AI Computer Runs Qwen 3.8 27B Locally at Zero Token Cost
Perplexity started shipping Portable Computer this week, a local-first version of its agentic Computer platform built to run on NVIDIA's DGX Spark...
Perplexity offers free Comet AI browser; AI browsers cybersecurity time bomb
Perplexity is giving away a browser, and that tells you everything about the state of AI. Its new tool, Comet, is free as of early October.
Perplexity's Free AI Offer Drew Millions of New Users in India
Perplexity's biggest bet on growth in India is starting to show its cards. In July 2025, the AI search company teamed up with Airtel, the country's...
Perplexity’s Personal Computer Turns Windows PCs Into AI Agents
Perplexity is bringing its AI agent tool to the operating system most office workers actually use.
Exa's Agent Ultra API claims cost and performance gains over rivals
Exa turned on the highest-effort setting of its research API this week, calling it Agent Ultra.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser Mirrors Chrome, Faces Perplexity Comet
OpenAI now makes a browser. It looks a lot like other browsers. The company launched ChatGPT Atlas for macOS, a navigation tool that immediately...
Chance AI targets India with visual Perplexity platform, student-led rollout
Hunting for India's next wave of creators, startups face a simple, staggering math. Over a hundred million people there make images and videos daily.