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Perplexity AI announced it has raised more than $62.7 million in funding at a valuation of $1.04 billion, led by Daniel Gross, former head of AI at Y Combinator. This officially makes Perplexity the latest minted unicorn. 🦄 Other investors include a who’s who of industry leaders: Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner and Lip -Bu Tan. 🤯👏
Perplexity is not just another AI chatbot. It's a new answers engine that gives us a glimpse into the future of smart search. I recently discussed how Perplexity and artificial intelligence threaten Google's search business. This may be one of the reasons why Perplexity's valuation has doubled in three months.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $62.7M at a valuation of $1.04B$, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner and Lip-Bu… pic.twitter.com/h0a986t4Md
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) April 23, 2024
Additionally, Perplexity has launched Enterprise Professional Editiondesigned to keep work and data safe and private.
How does it work?
Think about your daily search experience today. Often when you search, you become an “answer filter,” browsing SEO manipulation or spammy sites filled with affiliate links, all to increase their visibility rather than the most relevant information. Perplexity simplifies search for everyday users and now for enterprise employees, helping them save time while increasing productivity.
Perplexity's answer engine instantly browses the internet and provides complete, verifiable answers and citations (I love this part because I dig into each answer for more context). Perplexity also provides rich multimedia answers, including charts, videos, and images.
in a statementDatabricks CEO Ali Ghodsi shared how Perplexity powers his team, “Perplexity Enterprise Pro enables Databricks to dramatically accelerate R&D, making it easier for our engineering, marketing, and sales teams to execute faster. We estimate it can help our The team saves 5,000 hours of work per month.
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So what exactly is an answer engine? If you think about how to use Google to conduct more complex or specific searches, you may often ask it questions instead of entering keywords. Smart marketers practice “keyword anthropology” to understand the questions people ask and then optimize their pages based on those searches. This necessitates the user becoming a human filter to search, scroll, click, and most likely refine the search and repeat. It's business as usual.
With Perplexity, you can follow prompts to analyze potential results based on trusted or respected sources, providing output that better matches your search criteria. The results will also have footnotes if you want to dig deeper into the context. More importantly, hint-based hunting facilitates hint-based layers. You can dig deeper into the answers to help guide your exploration.
Enterprise Pro is designed to provide a rich search experience for its business users.
Here’s how great companies use Perplexity…
Zoom's product team uses Perplexity's Focus feature to conduct targeted searches.
HP's salespeople use Perplexity to conduct fast, in-depth prospect research, helping them develop compelling pitches and accelerate the sales process.
Innovative lawyers at Latham & Watkins are piloting Perplexity for targeted research.
Thrive Global's team of wellness editors are developing proven micro-steps to behavior change based on the latest peer-reviewed science.
The Cleveland Cavaliers' data team studies ticket sales trends and seeks partners.
Paytm’s strategy team drafts market landscape insights to inform their roadmap.
Amplitude's marketing and product teams use Perplexity to draft market landscape insights.
The following is the promotional material for Perplexity Pro, provided by salesman.
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