Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round | TechCrunch
[ad_1] AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding spherical, valuing the startup at $9 billion. Bloomberg, citing sources acquainted, stories that the spherical was led by Institutional Enterprise Companions and that it closed earlier in December. In an electronic mail to TechCrunch, a Perplexity spokesperson declined to remark. The mammoth tranche…