Company overview
What Perplexity does
Perplexity (Perplexity AI, Inc.) builds an AI-powered “answer engine” that answers questions by searching the web in real time and returning conversational responses with citations and links back to original sources. In addition to consumer search/answer experiences, the company provides APIs and developer tooling intended to embed web-grounded retrieval and agentic workflows into other products, with offerings such as a Search API, embeddings, and an agent-oriented API layer. Perplexity also markets a broader product direction toward an “AI browser / computer” concept (“Comet” and “Perplexity Computer”), positioning the product as an agentic environment for research and task execution across the open web and user workspaces.