AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app

A search startup raised $26 million recently to offer an AI-powered rival to Google.
Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,” closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun. The fresh tranche comes as Perplexity reports that it had 10 million monthly visits and 2 million unique visitors in February alone.
That’s a far cry from the estimated 89 billion visits Google had in May 2022. But Perp

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