Perplexity.ai recently raised a $25.6 million series A funding round led by Peter Sonsini of New Enterprise Associates (Board member, Databricks) with participation from their seed round investors Elad GilĀ (Founder, Color Health),Ā Nat FriedmanĀ (Former CEO of GitHub) andĀ Bob MugliaĀ (Former President of Microsoft), as well as new investorsĀ Susan WojcickiĀ (Former CEO of Youtube),Ā Paul BuchheitĀ (Creator of Gmail),Ā SoleioĀ (Designer of Messenger, Dropbox), andĀ Databricks Ventures.
We are also grateful to our angel investors who participated in our $3.1 million seed round in September 2022, led byĀ Elad GilĀ andĀ Nat Friedman, with participation fromĀ Pieter AbbeelĀ (UC Berkeley, AIX Ventures),Ā Yann LeCunĀ (Chief Scientist, Meta),Ā Andrej KarpathyĀ (Founding Member, OpenAI),Ā Ashish VaswaniĀ (Lead Inventor of Transformer),Ā Amjad MasadĀ (CEO, Replit),Ā Clem DelangueĀ (CEO, HuggingFace) and others.
Our long-term mission is to become the best platform for answers and information, serving as the go-to source for people seeking quick, accurate answers tailored to their asks. We envision Perplexity AI as a platform beyond a traditional search engine, evolving into a comprehensive knowledge hub where anyone can explore and learn effortlessly. In pursuit of this vision, we are committed to providing citations with every answer, providing proper attribution for sources of information and allowing for verification.
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They are excited to expand their platform from web to mobile, with almost half of their users already accessing them via mobile web. To improve the mobile experience, they launched the Perplexity AI iPhone app. With instant answers, cited sources, voice search, follow-up questions, and thread history, the app delivers a comprehensive interface for information.
As a team, we are honored to have the support of our users and investors as we pursue our mission of redefining the way people search for and access information. Thank you for joining us on this journey, and we look forward to continuing to push the limits of language models and search. The frontier of interactive possibilities is just beginning to be explored.
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Download their iPhone app today at perplexity.ai/download-iphone.