Despite Google's dominance in the search engine field, it acknowledges that AI-generated answers are the future of search, as evidenced by its launch of Search Generative Experience (SGE) last summer. Perplexity AI, used by approximately 10 million people monthly, faces a challenging journey to overtake Google. However, the endorsement from Amazon's founder and its growing user base indicate a promising start.
Key takeaways:
- Jeff Bezos has invested millions in Perplexity AI, a startup that aims to revolutionize search with AI-generated answers and potentially outdo Google.
- Perplexity AI provides straightforward paragraph answers to queries, generated by AI, and includes hyperlinks to the source websites.
- Perplexity AI has received significant financial backing, including from Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, in a $76 million funding round.
- Perplexity AI is used by roughly 10 million people to browse the internet every month, making it one of the first AI platforms to reach such a large audience.