Amazon’s billionaire owner is a big believer in Perplexity, which aspires to topple Google’s dominance.
Amazon’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, recently invested in an artificial intelligence startup, Perplexity, which aspires to overthrow its rule Google as a search engine.
The amount allocated by the powerful man is not yet known, but the company in a statement said that in the second round of fundraising it raised the amount of 73.6 million dollars from the public offering of its shares. The investors who support the innovative start-ups, says the company, are reliable players in the technology sector.
Jeff Bezos funded Perplexity through his fund, Bezos Expeditions Fund.
The technology start-up has been operating for two years and its capitalization is now close to 520 million dollars. It employs 40 employees and is used monthly by approximately 10 million users.
Η Perplexity leverages artificial intelligence to change the way people search for information online. The company’s employees call this innovative search engine, the “answer engine”.
According to the Wall Street Journal, η Perplexity it works as a chatbot type search engine that answers queries using technology GPT του OpenAI.
Its distinguishing feature is that “understands” natural language commandsUnlike Google which works with keywords and algorithmic encodings, while at the same time answering the questions in a structured way, integrating the sources it drew from the internet within the answer text, i.e. using hyperlinks.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivasstated: “If someone can get comprehensive answers directly to their question, no one needs those 10 blue links.”
It also said that the most advanced version of its search engine Perplexity using GPT-4OpenAI’s most advanced technology, is accessible for $20 per month.