Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity has added three new advisors.
That includes former Uber CEO Emile Michael. Rich Miner, Android co-founder and Google advisor. said former Bing CEO Mikhail Parakhin, according to a Thursday (May 16) post on his LinkedIn by Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas.
In his post, Srinivas said the three new advisors will help AI startups “in search, mobile, and distribution.”
Mr. Srinivas added that Michael will guide Perplexity's growth, business and distribution strategy. Miner helps the company predict user trends and build a more intuitive interface. And Paraquin will help evolve the company's core answer engine, internal search infrastructure and AI capabilities.
Perplexity, which aims to compete with Google's search engine, raised $63 million in a funding round in April, valuing the AI startup at $1 billion. The numbers show that valuations have doubled so far this year.
The company's AI chatbot summarizes search results, provides answer quotes, and helps users narrow down their questions to get the best answers.
Bloomberg reported in April that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said he uses Perplexity's products “almost every day.”
“We want every company in America to have Perplexity,” Srinivas told Bloomberg at the time.
The company's AI-native search interface, which displays quotes and images in answers, helped it gain traction. Currently, the number of monthly active users is 10 million.
Perplexity is one of many technology companies looking to take advantage of anticipated changes in behavior as people access information online, leveraging AI to make web searches more intelligent and streamlined. is.
Srinivas said in a blog post in January that the company's unique advantage in streamlining user searches lies in the use of AI to provide direct answers in response to search queries instead of web links.
“The days of SEO spam, sponsored links, and sifting through multiple web pages have been replaced by far more efficient ways of consuming and sharing information, and our society is entering a new era of accelerated learning and research. We will,” Srinivas said in the post.
