Reddit is suing the AI search developer Perplexity and the companies from which it buys AI training data, alleging the data firms are illegally scraping its content, violating its copyright protections. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. In addition to Perplexity, three data firms…
Perplexity / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Perplexity partners with 1Password. Partnership brings more security to Perplexity’s Comet agentic browser. Comet can take actions for users, making security important. Perplexity’s Comet AI browser is meant to act as an AI assistant that…
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it…
In a blog post on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct “in-depth research and analysis” to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it’s free for limited use. It comes just a couple of weeks after OpenAI announced its own Deep Research feature for ChatGPT…
ZDNET I’m an Android user and have been since version 1.5 of the OS. Over the past year or so, Google has switched its default assistant to its powerful AI solution, Gemini. For a while, I used Gemini on Android to get answers to my questions. I even made use of Gemini Live (which is…
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 comes…
