4月24日,生成式AI平台Perplexity AI在社交平台宣布,获得6270万美元融资,估值10.4亿美元。 本次由Daniel Gross领投,Stan Druckenmiller、NVIDIA、Jeff Bezos、Tobi Lutke、Garry Tan、Andrej Karpathy等跟投。
Perplexity AI is a generative AI search engine service that allows users to search for any information through natural language, and can think of Perplexity AI as a search engine version of "ChatGPT".
At present, the web version and mobile version of the service have been launched, and Chinese prompts are supported.
Experience address: https://www.perplexity.ai/discover
According to the data, Perplexity AI was founded in August 2022, received a $3.1 million seed round of funding in September of the same year, and released the Q&A engine "Ask" in December, followed by rapid growth in its business.
In just 4 months, the number of monthly active users exceeded 2 million, becoming a group of dark horses in the field of generative AI search engines, which is also one of the important reasons for receiving investment from technology giants such as Microsoft, Google, and GitHub.
In terms of products, Perplexity AI not only provides a web search service, but also launches Perplexity - Ask Anything, an iOS app for mobile.
Web search: Users can ask questions directly in the search box, for example, "how to treat migraine", which will list various methods for users to treat migraines, and provide the source of this information and related news, etc., and click the link to jump to the source page. It also supports multiple levels of continuous questioning until you get a satisfactory answer.
Mobile App Search: Almost functionally similar to web search, with voice questions, trending topics, and historical search history.
According to Perplexity AI, Q&A modes like ChatGPT have completely subverted the interactive mode of applications, simplifying a lot of manual business and making it easier and broader for people to access information. It also provides an opportunity for Perplexity AI to challenge traditional search engines through intelligent technology innovation.