perplexity AI, which is essentially a company trying to compete with Google for search.

They've just released their own AI browser.

This is a very interesting company in the AI space has just reached an $18 billion valuation.

This is just months after the last funding round.

I want to break down how they're able to do that, what they're able to do with the $18 billion.

And at the same time, perplexity right now is trying to unlock a completely different growth

strategy than opening I has used. They've struck up an absolutely massive partnership that is

going to unlock a ton of new users for them. So I want to cover all of that. I think this is

how it kind of plays into them being able to raise at an $18 billion valuation. But anyways, overall, this is a fascinating company doing some very interesting things that you were not seeing with a lot of the other AI companies. They're really focusing on growth and they're doing it in some unique ways. So we're going to dive into all of that. Before we do, if you want to try any of the latest AI models from the top AI companies, I would love for you to try out my startup AIbox.a. We just released a playground. It's in beta right now. And it essentially allows you to use the top 40 AI models. There's all the top companies like opening eye, Anthropic, GROC, deep seek, etc. But we also have a whole bunch of really interesting image models that you may not have tried, like a Deagram, Black Forest Labs. We have text to speech. We have speech to text, 11 labs and a whole bunch of other interesting tools. You can chat with all of the models in one chat. So you could just switch. Like, okay, you know, you know, Claude just generated you an article. Then you go to 11 labs, you get it to generate an audio file, reading that article. You can switch it over to Black Forest Labs and get you to generate some images for that, all in the same thread. So it's a really cool tool. It stores all of your media files in one place, which makes it easy to find and also easy to find what prompts and what conversations you were using to generate those files. So there's a whole bunch of cool tools. But anyways, you can check it out. There's a link in the description. Make sure you go try it out. It's $19 a month. Saves you subscriptions to all of these different platforms. So hope that is a money saver and really useful for trying out all of the latest AI models.

All right.

Let's get into what perplexity is doing.

So essentially, they just raised it a $14 billion valuation two months ago.

They're now in an $18 billion valuation, a $4 billion bump.

This is pretty interesting because in the past 18 months, they've went from

about $500 million, the beginning of 2024, to now $14 billion in May.

This is a company that is growing insanely fast.

They did, I think, get a bit of resistance from investors in this latest May funding round,

but the round closed and a bunch of new investors afterwards came to the company.

They told them they could purchase equity in $18 billion valuation.

So that's essentially how that happened.

So this is only a three-year-old company.

It's trying to take on Google right now, which is pretty impressive. And the latest growth vector that they're trying to unlock right now is actually India. So they're taking a completely different approach with this. Yes, you know, people here in America use it. Um, but India is a big area that they're focused on. And they've actually just pulled a brand new. It's actually so technically at like

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