The research startup fueled by AI, Perplexity, is said to be in the first talks to raise up to $ 1 billion in a new field of funding promoting the startup at $ 18 billion.
Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the question, reported On Thursday, that the annual annual income from Perplexity has now reached $ 100 million.
The evaluation of the perplexity has skyrocketed in recent years. This new round would double the current evaluation of Perplexity – $ 9 billion – in December. In April 2024, the perplexity was evaluated at $ 1 billion.
The rumors of a new lap came as competition in the research space fueled in AI heats up.
On Thursday, Anthropic added a web search to his Chatbot A consumer public, Claude. Earlier in March, Google launched a first version of an AI search engine based on chat, called AI mode, for a group of limited tester groups.
Perhaps because its main market becomes more and more congested, perplexity is trying to develop in new areas. The startup recently teased the launch of an “agentic” navigator called Comet, and it increased its business offers, recently launching a AI Research Engine to help companies recover information from internal documents.
We have contacted the perplexity to comment on rumors of fundraising and update this post if we hear.
