Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas announced at Bloomberg's Tech Summit that the AI search engine processed 780 million queries in May, experiencing over 20% month-over-month growth. This rapid growth, from merely 3,000 queries on its first day, positions Perplexity to potentially reach a billion queries per week within a year. Srinivas also introduced the upcoming Comet browser, designed to increase user retention by integrating AI capabilities to assist in completing tasks, ultimately transforming how users interact with online information and actions in a seamless manner.
"Give it a year, we'll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate," Srinivas said. "And that's pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries..."
"If people are in the browser, it's infinite retention," he said. "Everything in the search bar, everything on the new tab page... these are all going to be extra queries per active user..."
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