Artificial Intelligence
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-native company in Artificial Intelligence, based in United States. Shown below: 5 tools, 12 models, 11 funding rounds.
- Employees
- 247
- Raised
- $2.07B
- Valuation / employee
- $93.12M
- Tools
- 5
- Listed models
- 12
- Listed papers
- 13
- Rounds
- 11
Figures and classifications reflect imported catalog records, not live company reporting.
Tools
5 in the catalog
Perplexity Portable Computer ✓
FreemiumA local-first agent stack on your own hardware.
Personal Computer by Perplexity ✓
UnknownAn AI operating system that takes objectives, not instructions.
Perplexity Computer ✓
UnknownAI-powered answer engine for any question.
Perplexity Comet ✓
UnknownBrowse at the speed of thought
Perplexity ✓
FreemiumAI-powered answers to any question, instantly.
Models
12
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pplx pii masking Gen 7 Text
A 0.6B parameter bidirectional text encoder that detects and masks personally identifiable information in conversational data. It performs token level classification across 9 PII categories using a BIOES tagging scheme…
- Data anonymization
- Data protection
- Data leak prevention
- Data classification New
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Pplx Embed Gen 7 Text
Pplx pplx-embed is a family of text embedding models built for real-world, web-scale retrieval.
- Information retrieval
- Content categorization
- Conceptual search
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pplx embed v1 4b Gen 7 Text
A 4B-parameter text embedding model built on diffusion-pretrained Qwen3. Produces 2560-dimensional dense embeddings with INT8 and binary quantization, 32K context window, and Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) sup…
- Embeds
- Information retrieval
- Conceptual search
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pplx embed v1 0.6b Gen 7 Text
A 0.6B parameter multilingual text embedding model built on a diffusion-pretrained Qwen3 backbone. Produces 1024-dimensional unnormalized embeddings with int8 and binary quantization support, a 32K token context window,…
- Information retrieval
- Vector databases
- Non-interactive language modeling
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pplx embed context v1 0.6b Gen 7 Text
A 0.6B-parameter contextual text embedding model for RAG pipelines. Unlike standard embedding models, it takes full document chunks together so each chunk's embedding reflects surrounding context. Produces 1024-dimensio…
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge bases
- Document search
- Vector indexes
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pplx embed context v1 4B Gen 7 Text
A 4B-parameter contextual text embedding model built on diffusion-pretrained Qwen3, designed for RAG pipelines where document chunks benefit from surrounding context. Produces 2560-dimensional INT8/BINARY-quantized embe…
- Information retrieval
- Document search
- Vector databases
- Vector indexes
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R1 1776 Gen 7 Text
Perplexity’s open-source, post-trained variant of DeepSeek-R1 that removes CCP-aligned censorship to deliver unbiased, factual answers while preserving R1’s reasoning quality. It’s available as weights on Hugging Face a…
- Answers
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Deep Research Gen 7 Text
Perplexity’s premium reasoning assistant. It goes beyond quick Q&A by systematically searching across trusted sources, synthesizing information into a structured report, and exposing citations so you can verify or dive…
- Research
- Virtual girlfriend
- Motivational coach
- Essay outlines
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Sonar Pro Gen 7 Text
Perplexity’s balanced reasoning model, sitting between the smaller Sonar options and the top-end Sonar Large. It’s tuned for strong multi-step reasoning, accurate retrieval grounding, and code assistance, with a practic…
- Coding
- Data analysis
- Writing
- Research
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Sonar Gen 7 Text
Perplexity’s family of reasoning models built on the R1 post-training architecture. They’re optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), accurate instruction following, and structured outputs, with multiple sizes…
- Writing
- Coding
- ChatGPT
- Research
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Sonar Large 32K Gen 7 Text
Sonar Perplexity Sonar Large 32K is the top-tier Sonar reasoning model, built on Perplexity’s R1 post-trained architecture. It supports a 32,000-token context window, excels at deep reasoning and coding, and is tuned fo…
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Sonar Reasoning Pro Gen 7 Text
Sonar Advanced reasoning model combining multi-step Chain-of-Thought processing with real-time web search integration. Features a 128K context window. Successor to the deprecated sonar-reasoning model, built for complex…
- Research
- Data analysis
- Chatting
- Text generation New
In the catalogs
3
Papers
- Optimizing On-Device Inference for Apple Silicon Perplexity built Lily, a custom inference engine for Apple Silicon, to run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B more efficiently t…
- PII-TRACE: Detecting Personal Data Before It Leaves a Device Perplexity introduced PII-TRACE, a benchmark for testing whether AI systems can reliably detect personal info…
MCPs
- Perplexity MCP Perplexity MCP brings Perplexity search, ask, research, and reason tools into Cursor, Claude, or VS Code. Per…
Funding rounds
11 rounds
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Series D Announced 10 Sep 2025 · Leads: IVP$200M Raised $200M Round $20B Post-money 5 investors Announced
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Growth Round Announced 10 Sep 2025$200M Round $20B Post-money Closed
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Series E+ Announced 18 Jul 2025$100M Raised $100M Round $18B Post-money 4 investors Closed
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Growth Round Announced 17 Jul 2025$100M Raised $100M Round $18B Post-money 4 investors Announced
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Series E Announced 25 Jun 2025$500M Raised $500M Round $14B Post-money 5 investors Announced
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Series E Announced 15 Jun 2025 · Leads: Accel Partners$500M Raised $500M Round $14B Post-money 1 investors Closed
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Series D Announced 15 Dec 2024 · Leads: IVP$500M Raised $500M Round $9B Post-money 5 investors Closed
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Series C Announced 24 Apr 2024 · Leads: Daniel Gross$62.70M Raised $62.70M Round $1B Post-money 5 investors Closed
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Series B Announced 04 Jan 2024 · Leads: IVP$73.60M Raised $73.60M Round $520M Post-money 7 investors Closed
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Series A Announced 28 Mar 2023 · Leads: New Enterprise Associates$25.60M Raised $25.60M Round $150M Post-money 6 investors Closed
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Seed Announced 15 Sep 2022$3.10M Raised $3.10M Round 5 investors Closed
Source rankings
Imported positions; not an independent quality score.
- Overall Rank#126
- AI Native Rank#28
- Rank#59