Perplexity

Signals

Funding history

• Undisclosed Other announced 24 Aug 2026 coverage →

  NVIDIA

• Aravind Srinivas Cofounder, President, CEO
• Dmitry Shevelenko Chief Business Officer
• Raman Malik Vice President Of Product & Growth
• Andy Konwinski Co-founder
• Kieran Pitt Head of Infrastructure Accounting
• Austin Hollan Strategic Finance
• Benny Wong Strategic Finance
• John Kuok Revenue Accounting
• Alexa DeAnda Executive Operations to CEO & Co Founder of Perplexity AI
• Nathan Barksdale Head Of Legal & Operations
• Jerry VP Policy And Global Affairs
• William Z. Employee

+ 5 more tracked

Recent changes

• 2 Sep ▼ Drew Venker left (was Head Of Finance)
• 2 Sep ↻ Johnny Ho CSO & co-Founder → Cofounder, Chief Strategy Officer
• 2 Sep ▲ John Kuok joined as Revenue Accounting
• 2 Sep ▲ Benny Wong joined as Strategic Finance
• 2 Sep ▲ Austin Hollan joined as Strategic Finance
• 2 Sep ▲ Kieran Pitt joined as Head of Infrastructure Accounting

Latest developments

Exclusive: PeakMetrics tracks brand reputations across five top AI platforms SiliconANGLE · 4 hours ago · 10

Perplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it. The New Stack · 20 hours ago · 45

Profound hits $1.8B valuation with $180M raise led by Sequoia Capital to help brands rank in AI search Tech Funding News · 1 day ago · 4

Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch The New Stack · 2 days ago · 17 Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX NVIDIA Blog · 3 days ago · 5 Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems OpenAI · 5 days ago · 7

Visiby Product Hunt · 1 week ago · 37

Perplexity Hybrid Compute Product Hunt · 1 week ago · 8

Q3 2026

◆ Profound raises a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Funding

◆ Perplexity adds a local “Portable Computer” agent to its Windows app for compatible NVIDIA RTX PCs with 24GB+ VRAM Deployment

◆ OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra for agent use in self-testing and end-to-end system workflows Model release

◆ Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, an agentic coding model with efficiency improvements and new availability via Muse Code and the Meta Model API Model release

◆ Perplexity launched Hybrid Compute on the Mac, enabling AI agents to split tasks between cloud models and on-device models for privacy-aware processing Feature update

◆ Perplexity released Portable Computer, a locally running version of its Computer agent on supported NVIDIA hardware Deployment

◆ Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion Funding

◆ OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT ads to Free and ChatGPT Go users across 31 European countries Deployment

◆ Perplexity and Airtel announce a partnership Partnership

◆ SEC accuses Spaventa Group of running a boiler-room style scheme selling private AI company shares, raising $74 million from investors Legal action

◆ Judge denies motion to dismiss in Reddit's DMCA and copyright infringement lawsuit against Perplexity AI and SerpApi over unauthorized content scraping Legal action

◆ Perplexity launches Personal Computer AI agent for Windows Feature update

• 17 Sep Exclusive: PeakMetrics tracks brand reputations across five top AI platforms
• 16 Sep Perplexity’s AI agents helped build a database. They weren’t allowed to run it.
• 16 Sep Profound hits $1.8B valuation with $180M raise led by Sequoia Capital to help brands rank in AI search
• 14 Sep Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch
• 14 Sep Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
• 12 Sep Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
• 9 Sep Visiby
• 8 Sep Perplexity Hybrid Compute
• 3 Sep Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses ~20% Fewer Tool Calls and ~25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2
• 3 Sep Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
• 2 Sep Perplexity Releases Hybrid Compute on Mac: Cloud Agents Orchestrate Down to a Local Model, Gated On Device
• 1 Sep Your Mac is now part of Perplexity’s AI infrastructure
• 26 Aug Perplexity just separated reasoning from authority. Here’s why it matters for enterprises.
• 25 Aug Perplexity, Nvidia Run Chinese AI Model Locally on the “Portable Computer”
• 25 Aug Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
• 25 Aug Perplexity’s Computer agent can now run locally — if you can afford it
• 24 Aug Nvidia reportedly eyes Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation as AI search becomes an agent business
• 19 Aug OpenAI Confirms: ChatGPT Ads Will Launch in 31 European Countries Next Week
• 18 Aug Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
• 18 Aug AI gets its own "boiler room" scandal
• 15 Aug Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,’ SEC claims
• 15 Aug How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
• 3 Aug Reddit's lawsuit against Perplexity survives dismissal attempt over data scraping
• 31 Jul Perplexity launches Projects feature for organizing ongoing Computer work
• 30 Jul Perplexity Employee Launches Polar, an AI Browser for Knowledge Work
• 30 Jul Revolut Adds ChatGPT Go For Paying Users, Boots Perplexity
• 29 Jul “Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes
• 28 Jul Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives
• 28 Jul Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows
• 28 Jul Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
• 27 Jul Perplexity Releases pplx, a Single-Binary CLI That Puts Its Search API in the Terminal for Coding Agents
• 22 Jul The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari
• 19 Jul Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
• 7 Jul AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters

Q2 2026

• 19 Jun Is "Agent Readiness" a Real Category - or Just Snake Oil?
• 26 May Is SaaS dead?

Q1 2026

◆ Anthropic files lawsuit against Trump administration over Pentagon removal from military systems Legal action

• 16 Mar LWiAI Podcast #237 - Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!

Relationships

Products & technology

• Develops Portable Computer · 3 sources
• Develops SPACE · 1 source
• Develops Computer AI · 1 source
• Develops Model Council · 1 source
• Develops Personal Computer · 1 source
• Develops Comet · 1 source
• Develops pplx · 1 source
• Develops Bumblebee · 1 source
• Develops WANDR · 1 source
• Develops Perplexity Search as Code · 1 source

Investment & ownership

• NVIDIA invests in this company · 3 sources

Partnerships

• Partnered with NVIDIA · 2 sources