About

Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine that processes user queries and synthesizes responses by combining large language models with real-time web search, generating answers while citing sources. Founded in August 2022 by Aravind Srinivas (CEO), Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and was valued at approximately $21 billion as of early 2026.

Products
The lineup spans Perplexity (the free web search portal with AI-generated answers), Perplexity Pro (paid subscription with advanced language models including GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, plus document search), Perplexity Pages for structured summaries and report-like content, Comet (the AI browser launched in 2025, based on Chromium), the Shopping Hub, Perplexity Assistant (multi-modal cross-app tool), Finance Tools, and a Search API for developers.