AI-based search engine Perplexity made an unsolicited offer on August 12, 2025, to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in cash, a figure more than twenty-two times the total investment capital the company has raised to date. Perplexity promised to keep Chrome's underlying engine,
AI-based search engine developer Perplexity is launching another funding round at a $20 billion valuation, representing a $2 billion increase from the company's July 2025 valuation of $18 billion, Business Insider reported on August 13, 2025. The startup, founded in 2022, has seen its value rise dramatically, from
In its August 2025 report, Cloudflare accused Perplexity AI of deliberately bypassing website protection systems and technical restrictions designed to prevent their content being harvested for AI training. The company identified suspicious activity across more than 32,000 websites in the space of three months. According to the report, Perplexity’
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
