
Perplexity AI: Google's $9B Nightmare
Perplexity AI raised $500M at a $9B valuation to do what Google won't: give you answers, not ads. But can a fancy AI wrapper actually kill search, or is it just the next hype cycle?

Perplexity AI raised $500M at a $9B valuation to do what Google won't: give you answers, not ads. But can a fancy AI wrapper actually kill search, or is it just the next hype cycle?

Perplexity AI just hit Coursera, cementing its status as the ultimate Google killer. We strip the VHS grain off the RAG-powered answer engine to see if it's the next big drop or an AI scraping grift.