Perplexity obtained 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 price,” 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 brand new Comet browser that it’s engaged on.
“If individuals are within the browser, it’s infinite retention,” he stated. “All the things within the search bar, all the things on the brand new tab web page, all the things you’re doing on the sidecar, any of the pages you’re in, these are all going to be further queries per lively consumer, in addition to in search of 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 growing Comet is to shift the position of AI from merely offering solutions to really finishing actions in your behalf. He defined that once you get an AI-powered reply, it’s primarily 4 or 5 searches in a single. However, AI performing an motion could be getting a whole shopping session executed with one immediate.
“You actually need to really have a browser and hybridize the compute on the consumer and the server facet in essentially the most seamless manner doable,” he stated. “And that requires rethinking the entire browser.”
He went on to elucidate that Perplexity isn’t considering of Comet as “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 facet, or like, simply going and doing shopping classes for you,” Srinivas stated. “And I believe that’ll basically make us rethink how we even take into consideration the web. Like, earlier we might browse the web, however now individuals are more and more dwelling on the web. Like quite a lot of our life truly exists there. And if you wish to construct a proactive, personalised AI, it must stay along with you, and that’s why we have to rethink the browser fully.”
Whereas the corporate hasn’t revealed an excessive amount of concerning the browser, Srinivas stated in April that one cause Perplexity is growing its personal browser is to trace consumer exercise past its personal app in order that it may promote premium adverts, which might primarily mirror what Google quietly did to turn into the enormous it’s in the present day.
It’s at present unknown when precisely Comet will launch, however Srinivas beforehand stated on X that it’ll launch within the coming weeks.
