Perplexity acquired 780 million queries in Could, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas mentioned 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 mentioned. “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 persons are within the browser, it’s infinite retention,” he mentioned. “Every thing 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 further queries per energetic person, in addition to searching for new customers who simply are uninterested in legacy browsers, like Chrome. I feel that’s going to be the way in which to develop over the approaching 12 months.”
Srinivas mentioned the explanation Perplexity is creating Comet is to shift the function of AI from merely offering solutions to truly finishing actions in your behalf. He defined that whenever you get an AI-powered reply, it’s basically 4 or 5 searches in a single. Then again, AI performing an motion could be getting a complete searching session completed with one immediate.
“You actually need to truly have a browser and hybridize the compute on the shopper and the server aspect in essentially the most seamless manner attainable,” he mentioned. “And that requires rethinking the entire browser.”
He went on to elucidate that Perplexity isn’t considering 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 mentioned. “And I feel that’ll basically make us rethink how we even take into consideration the web. Like, earlier we’d browse the web, however now persons are more and more dwelling on the web. Like plenty of our life truly exists there. And if you wish to construct a proactive, customized AI, it must stay along with you, and that’s why we have to rethink the browser totally.”
Whereas the corporate hasn’t revealed an excessive amount of concerning the browser, Srinivas said in April that one purpose Perplexity is creating its personal browser is to trace person exercise past its personal app in order that it will possibly promote premium adverts, which might basically mirror what Google quietly did to grow to be the enormous it’s at present.
It’s at the moment unknown when precisely Comet will launch, however Srinivas previously said on X that it’s going to launch within the coming weeks.