Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B at an $18B valuation

At the beginning of AI-powered search, confusion is said to be in early talks to increase the beginning of a new financial round worth $ 18 billion.

Bloomberg, referring to a person familiar with the issue, declare On Thursday, annual repetitive revenues of this confusion have already reached $ 100 million.

In recent years, confusion increased. This new tour would be the current assessment of double confusion – $ 9 billion – until December. Was confused in April 2024 Estimated at $ 1 billion.

The rumors of a new round come as competition in the search space that supports AI.

Thursday, anthropic Consumer AI Chatbot added a website search in Claude. Earlier in March, Google has started the early version of the AI ​​search engine based on the conversation, It is called AI modefor experiments for a limited group.

Perhaps it becomes a crowd of confusion, because it becomes a crowd, and he is trying to enter new areas. Recently starting To launch an “agent” browser called Comet, and recently launched an employee proposals ramp AI search engine helps enterprises obtain information from internal documents.

We have become confused for comment on the Fundraising rumors and will update this article again.