Perplexity announced its new $200 monthly Max subscription plan on July 2, 2025, offering unlimited access to its Labs development tools and priority access to upcoming features, including the forthcoming Comet AI browser. Max subscribers will receive priority when using Perplexity services with the latest frontier models such as OpenAI
Perplexity AI processed 780 million queries in May 2025, representing a 20% month-over-month growth rate. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced at the Bloomberg Tech Summit on June 5, 2025, that at this growth rate, the company could reach one billion queries per week within a year, which would amount to 52
On 23rd May 2025, Perplexity officially launched Perplexity Labs, an early-access environment specifically developed for business users that enables them to create customised AI solutions with their own organisational data. The system is built on a proprietary 100 billion parameter language model called Perplexity Labs LLM, which offers functionality significantly
In January 2025, Perplexity announced the integration of the DeepSeek R1 model into its platform, potentially bringing revolutionary change to AI-based searches. The Chinese-developed model, which runs exclusively on American and European servers, is not only more cost-effective than its competitors but also outperforms them in terms of performance whilst
Perplexity announced its new AI-based web browser, Comet, on 24th February 2025, which the company claims will revolutionise internet browsing, just as they previously redefined search. In its post on the X social platform, the company characterised the product as automated intelligent searching and has already launched a waiting list
