Perplexity has additionally experimented with unconventional methods to achieve new customers, together with partnering with video podcasts and streaming reveals from Theo Von and Ben Shapiro to reply real-time questions.
The New York Occasions has warned Perplexity to cease utilizing its content material, and earlier this month Japanese publishers Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun filed a joint lawsuit making related claims of copyright infringement.
Perplexity this week introduced plans to share 80% of income from Comet Plus, its browser-based subscription product, with publishers—a part of its effort to safe licensing offers amid these mounting authorized challenges.
Correction, August 29 at 12:25 p.m. ET: An earlier model of this text incorrectly mentioned that The New York Occasions had sued Perplexity. It had warned the corporate of authorized motion in a cease-and-desist letter.
