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Apple is reportedly considering buying Perplexity AI in iPhone maker’s biggest-ever acquisition
Apple is reportedly considering its most ambitious acquisition yet: AI startup Perplexity, whose AI-driven search engine and chatbot are among the leading ChatGPT alternatives with around 15 million users. According to a new Bloomberg report this week, Apple’s head of mergers and acquisitions, Adrian Perica, has been in talks with services SVP Eddy Cue and the company’s top executives about…
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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence
At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for various reasons,…
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Nvidia, Perplexity to partner with EU and Middle East AI firms to build sovereign LLMs – Computerworld
Nvidia and AI search firm Perplexity said they are joining hands with model builders and cloud providers across Europe and the Middle East to refine sovereign large-language models (LLMs) and accelerate enterprise AI uptake in local industries. Under the deal, model builders and AI consortia from the region will fine-tune their language models with Nvidia’s Nemotron techniques, a move the…
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New Perplexity Labs platform launched for those ‘who want to bring an entire idea to life’ – Computerworld
Perplexity this week released Perplexity Labs, a new tool for Pro users that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and visual representations, to meet users’ increased demand for AI productivity tools with greater autonomy and ever more sophisticated capabilities. The platform, a rival to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, can even work on its own for 10 minutes (or…
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I ditched Google for Perplexity for a month — and I don’t think I can go back
Like many people, I have naturally defaulted to Google as my search engine of choice. It’s not through a lack of trying out the competition. I’ve used DuckDuckGo, Brave, and a selection of competitors, but the lure of different unique selling points has never managed to pry me away from the ease of Google. However, there is a newer and…
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Perplexity AI’s quiet coup – Computerworld
Perplexity’s great leap forward Perplexity AI is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system launched in 2022 that answers questions directly by searching the web in real time, pulling from news sites, academic journals, and databases, then writing up a summary with accompanied search links. It uses AI models like GPT-4 and Claude 3 to understand your question, find the best information, and explain…
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You Can Now Talk to Perplexity AI Directly From WhatsApp
After adding a Voice Assistant feature to the iPhone app, Perplexity is now available in WhatsApp. Working just like any other chat, you can use the Perplexity chatbot without an account or any setup. Simply send it your questions, and the Perplexity AI model will reply to you. It has access to the internet, too, so it can provide the…
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Forget Bixby – Perplexity could soon come to your Samsung Galaxy smartphone
You may have noticed that AI assistants are everywhere right now. They are in our browsers, our phones, and even in our Ray-Bans. From AI giants like Apple’s Siri, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, it seems as though we find a new use for these chatbots every day. Now, these giants have even more competition as Perplexity is about to…
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AI Madness round 1: ChatGPT vs Perplexity
In the first round of AI Madness we are going head-to-head with ChatGPT-4o vs Perplexity AI. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is known for consistently delivering reliable, up-to-date information, often matching or surpassing competitors. Providing nuanced answers that account for subtle variations in user queries, the chatbot responds with a natural, conversational style, often indistinguishable from human-created text. (Image credit: Nick Bush/Tom’s Guide)…
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What is Perplexity AI? Everything you need to know
Perplexity AI is an AI-driven search engine and chatbot that uses large language models (LLMs) to answer user queries by drawing information from the web and providing cited sources within its responses. Similar to ChatGPT Search, the model combines a traditional search engine with an AI assistant, delivering answers in natural language backed by references. The startup was founded in…
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