Perplexity obtained 780 million queries in Might, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas mentioned that the AI search engine is seeing greater than 20% progress month-over-month.
“Give it a yr, we’ll be doing, like, a billion queries every week if we will maintain this progress charge,” 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 progress.”
Srinivas went on to notice that the identical progress 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, every part on the brand new tab web page, every part 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 bored with legacy browsers, like Chrome. I believe that’s going to be the way in which to develop over the approaching yr.”
Srinivas mentioned 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 basically 4 or 5 searches in a single. Alternatively, AI performing an motion can be getting a whole searching session achieved with one immediate.
“You really want to really have a browser and hybridize the compute on the consumer and the server facet in probably the most seamless method attainable,” he mentioned. “And that requires rethinking the entire browser.”
He went on to clarify that Perplexity isn’t pondering 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 facet, or like, simply going and doing searching periods for you,” Srinivas mentioned. “And I believe 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 a number of our life truly exists there. And if you wish to construct a proactive, personalised AI, it must dwell 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 said in April that one motive Perplexity is growing its personal browser is to trace consumer exercise past its personal app in order that it may possibly promote premium adverts, which might basically mirror what Google quietly did to turn out to be the enormous it’s at this time.
It’s presently unknown when precisely Comet will launch, however Srinivas previously said on X that it’s going to launch within the coming weeks.