Welcome to the AI chat podcast. I'm your host, Jane Schaefer. Today on the podcast, we're talking

about the fact that perplexity has allegedly just raised a massive new $500 million round. If you're

watching this over on YouTube or Spotify, you can see the videos and the visuals. I'll be sharing my

screen and breaking down exactly what's going on. If you're on Apple, check out the link in the

description to the YouTube channel, and you can also see that. All right. So what is really impressive is not just the fact

that perplexity, in my opinion, has raised this $500 million round and warranted. I'll say that

they've refused to kind of comment on the story, but this is essentially the rumors coming out

this closed in December. But what's interesting to me is that they are also actively acquiring companies.

They're not slowing down. We'll get into all of that in the podcast today. I think this is an

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