Perplexity AI is reportedly creating a $50 million venture fund focused on US-based seed and seed artificial intelligence (AI) startups.
The AI startup itself will become the fund’s anchor investor, but external limited partners will provide most of their capital, CNBC reported on Tuesday (February 25), citing an unnamed source. It’s there.
Confusion that reached Pymnts declined to comment on the report.
In December, the company shut down its $500 million funding earlier that month, and it was reported that supporters, including SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, were shut down.
The round tripled Perplexity’s valuation to $9 billion.
On Monday (February 24th), Perplexity announced it was planning to launch its own web browser, a web browser called Comet, and invited people to sign up for WaitList.
The company said in October that its search engine provided more than 100 million queries a week.
In November, Perplexity introduced an AI-powered shopping assistant called Pro With Pro, which helps shoppers research and purchase.
42% of US venture capital companies were invested in AI companies in 2024, up from 36% in 2023 and 22% in 2022.
“While venture capital has always been drawn to transformative industries, the level of integration seen within one category is unprecedented,” said Dave Sabow, Head of HSBC US Innovation Banking, in a press release. I did.
“This radical change in investment puts us at the dawn of our “agent age.” This is an age where autonomous artificial intelligence capabilities fundamentally redefine communication, work and interface with the digital and physical world,” Sabo said.
Pymnts reported on Tuesday that three startups, Robotics and Cloud AI, have recently raised $2.3 billion.
The diagram for creating humanoid robots for home and business is under discussion to raise $1.5 billion in the Series C funding round. Lambda, a cloud AI startup that builds hyperscalar clouds for AI developers and end users, has raised $480 million. They also use OpenSource models to build AI clouds for AI applications and train custom models, raising $305 million in Series B funding rounds.
