Perplexity acquired 780 million queries in Might, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas stated that the AI search engine is seeing greater than 20% development month-over-month.
“Give it a 12 months, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries every week if we are able to maintain this development fee,” Srinivas stated. “And that’s fairly spectacular as a result of the primary day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, only one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it’s been phenomenal development.”
Srinivas went on to notice that the identical development trajectory is feasible, particularly with the new Comet browser that it’s engaged on.
“If individuals are within the browser, it’s infinite retention,” he stated. “Every part within the search bar, all the pieces on the brand new tab web page, all the pieces you’re doing on the sidecar, any of the pages you’re in, these are all going to be additional queries per energetic consumer, in addition to looking for new customers who simply are uninterested in legacy browsers, like Chrome. I believe that’s going to be the way in which to develop over the approaching 12 months.”
Srinivas stated the rationale Perplexity is creating Comet is to shift the function of AI from merely offering solutions to really finishing actions in your behalf. He defined that while you get an AI-powered reply, it’s primarily 4 or 5 searches in a single. However, AI performing an motion can be getting a whole searching session carried out with one immediate.
“You really want to really have a browser and hybridize the compute on the shopper and the server aspect in probably the most seamless manner potential,” he stated. “And that requires rethinking the entire browser.”
He went on to clarify that Perplexity isn’t pondering of Comet as “yet one more browser,” however as a “cognitive working system.”
“It’ll be there for you each time, anytime, for work or life, as a system on the aspect, or like, simply going and doing searching classes for you,” Srinivas stated. “And I believe that’ll essentially make us rethink how we even take into consideration the web. Like, earlier we’d browse the web, however now individuals are more and more residing on the web. Like numerous our life really exists there. And if you wish to construct a proactive, customized AI, it must dwell along with you, and that’s why we have to rethink the browser solely.”
Whereas the corporate hasn’t revealed an excessive amount of concerning the browser, Srinivas stated in April that one motive Perplexity is creating its personal browser is to trace consumer exercise past its personal app in order that it might probably promote premium adverts, which might primarily mirror what Google quietly did to develop into the enormous it’s at present.
It’s at present unknown when precisely Comet will launch, however Srinivas beforehand stated on X that it’s going to launch within the coming weeks.
