Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered search startup Perplexity AI Preparing to expand its operations in India. The startup wants to hire one person to help with this. Candidates for this role should be resident in India, working in a startup environment and able to travel to meet strategic partners and institutions. This criteria has been announced by the startup’s co-founder and CEO Arvind Srinivas on LinkedIn.
Perplexity AI has attracted more than 10 lakh users in India. This shows the increasing popularity of its service. In such a situation, this hiring is very important to increase operations in India. The startup was founded in August 2022 by Srinivas, Dennis Yarats, Jonny Ho, and Andy Konwinski.
Recently received funding of 50 crore dollars
Perplexity AI launched its answer engine in December 2022. According to reports, the startup recently closed a funding round of $500 million, which has increased its valuation 3 times to $9 billion. Perplexity AI is funded by Nvidia, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Shopify CEO Toby Lutke.
The startup has also received praise from competitors. Perplexity generates the answer to a question using sources from the web and cites links within the answer. The headquarters of the startup is in America.