Perplexity, AI and Carbon

Perplexity AI gets $500M in funding, immediately spends some of it to buy RAG startup Carbon
Perplexity AI Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence search engine and a competitor to OpenAI, today revealed it has closed on a hefty $500 million funding round that brings its value to a cool $9 billion.
OpenAI rival Perplexity acquires start-up Carbon
AI-powered conversational search engine Perplexity has announced the acquisition of Carbon, a US start-up that operates as a universal retrieval engine for LLMs to access unstructured data from any source. This comes after Perplexity saw its valuation rise to more than $9bn after its latest funding round.
Perplexity AI triples its valuation in about 6 months with latest $500 million funding round
Perplexity AI closed a $500M funding round, Bloomberg reported, tripling the startup's valuation within 6 months at $9 billion.
SoftBank-backed Perplexity bags $500M funding at $9B valuation
Perplexity was valued at $1 billion in April, which rose to $3 billion in June after the Nvidia-backed company received an investment between $10 million and $20 million from SoftBank Group Vision Fund 2.
AI startup Perplexity’s valuation triples to $9B in latest funding round: Bloomberg (Update)
Nvidia (NVDA)-backed AI startup Perplexity AI has closed a $500M funding round, tripling its valuation to $9B, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing peop
AI Startup Perplexity Closes Funding Round at $9 Billion Value
Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup building a search product to compete with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, has closed a $500 million round of funding that triples the company’s valuation to $9 billion,
Perplexity acquires Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps developers connect data sources to LLMs
Perplexity, an OpenAI rival valued at $9 billion, acquired Carbon, a Seattle startup that helps companies connect ...
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The AI Search Race Heats Up With Perplexity’s Latest Acquisition
Perplexity, the rapidly growing AI search company, has made a strategic move by acquiring Carbon, a Seattle-based ...
Perplexity acquires Carbon to connect AI search to your work files
Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon which specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources, the companies announced on Wednesday. CEO Aravind Srinivasan says ...
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Jeff Bezos-Backed Perplexity Raises $500 Million, Tripling Its Valuation To $9 Billion As Competition With Google And OpenAI Heats Up
Perplexity AI, backed by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, secured $500 million in funding led by Institutional Venture ...
ChatGPT vs. Perplexity: battle of the AI search engines
ChatGPT was already a threat to Google Search, but ChatGPT Search was supposed to clench its victory, along with being an answer to Perplexity AI. But according to a newly released study by Columbia’s ...
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Personalized Shopping Made Easy: Perplexity’s New AI Shop Feature Explained
Perplexity’s new shop feature transforms product discovery and purchasing by combining personalized recommendations with seamless shopping. This innovative AI-powered platform aims to make the ...
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Perplexity adds major publishers to AI program
Perplexity, an AI startup, has added more than a dozen new media companies to its publisher program. The new partners include Blavity, Gear Patrol, The Independent, Lee Enterprises, Los Angeles ...