Despite launching Chrome only in 2008, Google turned it into the world’s most popular browser, with a 65% share. Chrome played a key role in Google retaining its monopoly in search, where its share is nearly 90%. Now, in an ongoing trial, the US government may force the tech giant to sell its browser as…
Perplexity AI had announced earlier this year its plans to launch a new browser to compete directly with the likes of Google Chrome and Safari. In a recent interaction, the AI startup’s CEO Aravind Srinivas has divulged that one of the reasons why Perplexity is to build a personalized profile of its users and potentially…
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has pitched the idea of creating a Siri like voice assistant for iPhones that works on âbasic stuffâ. Notably, Perplexity already has a AI assitant app for Android that competes directly with Google Assitant/ Gemini and this could be an attempt by the company to do a similar thing on…
However, standalone subscription software is now under severe pressure. Despite rapid product and feature launches, XaaS companies are struggling to sustain revenue growth. The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) is altering the economics of software, leading to a shift where AI is no longer a product but an embedded layer. This change is visible globally…
The first wave of AI coding assistants has become proficient at producing code that meets this standard, thanks to training on billions of code snippets that enabled them to learn the structural syntax of various programming languages. Ask an Indian software engineer what frightens them the most right now, and many will say Generative AI…
Aravind Srinivas led Perplexity AI has confirmed that it will be launching a new browser called âCometâ for providing agentic search experience. The company released a vague teaser video for the browser and open a waitlist but there is no guarantee yet on when it will release or what features it will power. Perplexity’s AI-powered…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas for building a rival Deep Research project based on China’s DeepSeek AI. Notably, OpenAI had recently rolled out Deep Research to ChatGPT which prompted Srinivas to bring a similar offering, albeit less accurate but faster and cheaper. The conversation began with Altman announcing a new…
In a world overflowing with information, keeping up with the most important updates can be overwhelming. To make it easier, weâve put together the Weekly Tech Recapâ where we take a look at the biggest developments in technology each week. This time, Perplexity launched its Deep Search agent rivalling OpenAI and Google, Adobe rolled out…
Aravind Srinivas-led Perplexity AI has brought its own Deep Research tool that it claims will help users save hours of time by conducting in-depth research and analysis on their behalf while taking less than 3 minutes for most tasks. Perplexity was already offering DeepSeek R1 on its platform and the addition of Deep Research takes…
Perplexity AI has announced that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s R-1 reasoning model is now available to use for deep web research on its platform. The Aravind Srinivas led company stated that it is increasing the number of uses for both free and paid users as it adds more capacity. âDeepSeek R1 is now available on…
