By futureTEKnow | Editorial Team
The AI landscape just saw another seismic shift. Perplexity AI, the fast-rising competitor to tech giants like Google and OpenAI, has snagged a fresh $100 million in funding, vaulting its valuation to $18 billion—a staggering leap from just $14 billion earlier this year and $1 billion a year before that. This new capital, contributed by major players such as Nvidia, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, and New Enterprise Associates, underscores the intense investor confidence pouring into the generative AI sector.
Founded in 2022, Perplexity has experienced explosive growth, with its annualized revenue soaring from $35 million in August 2023 to $150 million by July 2025. Its popularity isn’t just a fluke—Perplexity delivers an AI-powered search engine that’s angling to disrupt the Google search empire. What sets it apart is a relentless pursuit of efficient, transparent knowledge delivery combined with bleeding-edge generative AI.
This year, Perplexity unveiled the Comet browser, a Chromium-based web app uniquely integrated with an AI assistant sidebar. Unlike conventional browsers, Comet:
Streamlines search, automation, and multitasking using AI.
Features a distinctive sidebar to help with research, email management, task delegation, and even shopping.
Is available to Perplexity Max subscribers and select invitees, positioning it as the next hub for “agentic computing”—seamlessly blending research and productivity.
By combining a browser, assistant, and knowledge engine, Perplexity aims to become the “home page of human curiosity.”
One standout element of Perplexity’s expansion is its aggressive push into India, the world’s second-largest internet and smartphone market. The company’s landmark partnership with Bharti Airtel delivers a free year of Perplexity Pro to all Airtel’s 360+ million users—a strategic first in the telecom industry. The immediate results are staggering: Perplexity has surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT as India’s top free app on the Apple App Store, riding a 600% year-over-year surge in downloads.
Perplexity’s global playbook now includes over 25 telco partners, such as SoftBank in Japan and SK Telecom in South Korea, emphasizing scale, integration, and accessibility.
Despite rumors of potential acquisition offers from tech behemoths, CEO Aravind Srinivas is signaling a firm commitment to independence and even hints at a public listing. With robust investor backing and a hyper-growth trajectory, Perplexity is continuing to invest in proprietary AI models and third-party integrations. The company’s clear mission: be the engine powering information, work, and learning for the AI-first era.
Perplexity’s story is more than just big funding and valuations:
The rapid development of its tools signals increasing expectations for search engines to evolve into smart, assistive agents rather than passive content directories.
Its browser and assistant integrations underline a shift to unified productivity experiences—not just answers, but real work done by AI.
The company’s user and revenue growth prove strong, ongoing demand for AI-driven, transparent, and customizable information tools.
As more competitors chase the AI crown, one thing is clear: the next frontier of the internet will be defined by those who can combine search, automation, and transparency into cohesive experiences. Perplexity AI’s audacious expansion hints that the company isn’t just riding the AI wave—it wants to shape the very way we learn, work, and connect online.
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