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Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

TechCrunch 1 week ago 16

Perplexity gave away 12 months of premium access through Indian telecom Airtel to 360 million potential customers starting in July 2025, generating 56 million downloads over seven months. Revenue in India grew from $34,000 monthly in January 2025 to $156,000 in July 2026, and monthly active users stabilized at 14 million even after the free offer ended in January. The results suggest some users are willing to convert to paid subscriptions after experiencing the premium service, though auto-renewal makes it unclear how many are actively choosing to pay versus passively retaining the service.

AI usage patterns in software teams

Linear 1 week ago 46

Linear analyzed AI adoption patterns across 127,000 users in their project management platform from January to June 2026, finding that AI-active users more than doubled in every function and coding agent teams tripled their weekly pull requests from 21 to 65. Teams using coding agents drove the 111% increase in overall pull requests since June 2024, though time spent on traditional tasks in Linear remained flat despite the new work layer AI created. The data suggests AI has accelerated output rather than saved time, with product managers and designers increasingly shipping code directly.

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