Perplexity Comet
AI browser from Perplexity with an assistant that performs agentic browsing tasks on the user's behalf.
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Perplexity Funding History
Perplexity is a US AI company that operates the Perplexity answer engine and Comet browser and develops the Sonar search-augmented models.
Company Overview
Founded 2022 · San Francisco, California
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Funding Round
US$200 million
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Series B Extension
US$250 million
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Seed
~US$3.1 million
Perplexity Founding Team
Aravind Srinivas
Co-founder of Perplexity.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04Denis Yarats
Co-founder of Perplexity.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04Johnny Ho
Co-founder of Perplexity.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04Andy Konwinski
Co-founder of Perplexity.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Perplexity Products
Applications, APIs and Tools
Perplexity Search API
Search API from Perplexity providing retrieval and ranking interfaces for applications that need web-sourced answers.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14Perplexity Shopping
Shopping feature of the Perplexity answer engine offering product results with instant checkout across a merchant network.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14Perplexity
AI answer engine that responds to questions with sourced answers built on its own web index, populated by the PerplexityBot crawler.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-14
Models
Perplexity Sonar
Perplexity's web-grounded model family for search-backed responses and reasoning, now served through the Agent API after the Sonar chat-completions API retired in September 2026.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-19
Recorded Versions · 1
Perplexity Sonar Pro High
A Perplexity Sonar model variant for search-enhanced language model responses.
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Status: activeReviewed: 2026-10-18