Perplexity

One of the many ways Google has been desperately trying to maintain the usefulness of its increasingly shoddy core search product is by stuffing Reddit threads into as many search result pages as possible — a reaction, one supposes, to the way that users have responded to Google Search’s decline by affixing the word “Reddit” to their search queries. Do that, of course, and you zero in on insights from real people, as opposed to whatever garbage the Google Search algorithm decides to throw at you. People do this…

The way we search the web—picking through a list of links, some of them paid for, some gamed to show up high on the page—has remained virtually unchanged for more than two decades. Then came AI chatbots, which can understand plain-language questions and return direct answers, potentially reshuffling the $110 billion search ad business now dominated by Google.  One-year-old Perplexity’s “answer engine” is at the forefront of this new world of chatbot-assisted search. Perplexity uses a combination of homegrown large…

After weeks of anticipation, Carl Pei-led Nothing took the wraps off its first-ever smartphone in the mid-range segment today, March 5, at an event held in New Delhi. It is the third smartphone from the British consumer electronics company and follows Nothing Phone 2 which was unveiled in July last year. Alongside the Nothing Phone 2a, the company also announced earbuds by its sub-brand CMF as well as a partnership with artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity AI. Check 5 things to know about the Nothing Phone 2a…

Ahead of the launch of Nothing Phone 2a on March 5, Nothing CEO Carl Pei gained the attention of the company's Indian followers by launching a new ‘Bhai' campaign. While this began as a funny exchange between one X user and Pei, the Nothing CEO then started responding to X posts with ‘Bhai' - a Hindi-language word that translates to ‘brother'. Carl Pei on XOver the last few days, there have been speculations about Nothing hiring Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh as their brand ambassador. One X user asked Carl Pei about the…

Catering to millions of users worldwide, Slack is one of the world's most popular tools for communication used by professionals and businesses. The platform has a vast number of features that give it an advantage over other forms of communication. And now, Slack has taken a big stride forward into the new tech that is on everyone's tongues - artificial intelligence. To provide a more efficient yet broader user experience, Slack has introduced a new suite of AI features under Slack AI, and not just that, but importantly,…

As someone who’s been a working journalist for 20 years at this point — work that, to be more specific, has largely involved writing and publishing content for the web — I was impressed right away after trying out the flagship release from Perplexity, a new AI-based search startup whose backers include Jeff Bezos. The company’s search product, already in use by about 10 million people monthly, is something it calls an answer engine; it’s essentially a clean, conversational, and ad-free Google challenger that’s…

Perplexity.AI has been challenging big tech companies like Google and Microsoft by offering a simple, yet amazingly effective, AI-powered search engine experience. And it has seen huge success too! A little over a year into its journey, this AI search engine has received a boost courtesy of $73.6 million in a series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $100 million. It plans to utilize the funding to enhance its AI-driven search engine capabilities. This AI startup, led by Indian-origin CEO Aravind Srinivas,…

In the aftermath of its stellar debut at CES '24, Rabbit's pocket-sized AI gem, the Rabbit R1, is forging new frontiers through a strategic collaboration with Perplexity AI. This alliance promises to elevate the R1's capabilities, marking a significant leap in the realm of AI-driven personal assistants.In an exclusive live Spaces broadcast on X, Rabbit's CEO Jesse Lyu and Perplexity co-founder Aravind Srinivas unveiled this exciting partnership. As part of a limited offer, the first 100,000 R1 purchasers will enjoy a…

There’s no question about it: the playful-looking Rabbit r1 device unveiled during CES 2024 is one of the most exciting gadgets that debuted at the show. And yes, the Rabbit r1 is an AI-powered device since practically everything at CES this year involved AI. But this one does things very differently than ChatGPT and similar generative AI services. Rather than only trying to answer questions and create content, the r1 does something no ChatGPT variant can do. r1 performs tasks in apps for you and can learn…

The Rabbit R1 launch at CES left many questions unanswered, but earlier today, the brand finally shed light on which LLM (large language model) will be powering the device's interaction with us mere mortals. The AI provider in question is none other than Perplexity, a San Francisco-based startup with ambitions to overtake Google in the AI space, which is no wonder that it has already received investments from the likes of NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos.Perplexity will be providing up-to-date search results via Rabbit's $199 orange…