Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine. (Image Source: Reuters)
Google search rival Perplexity AI is looking to expand its operations into India. It is currently in search of a candidate who can help grow the AI-based search startup in the country. The announcement was made by Perplexity CEO and co-founder Aravind Srinivas on Saturday, January 11.
“I am looking to recruit someone to work together on growing Perplexity in India. It will be fun and intense. You must be based in India and willing to travel and meet with strategic partners and institutions—scrappy startup mode,” Srinivas said in a LinkedIn post.
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Interested candidates can email their applications to india@perplexity.ai with a resume and a brief email highlighting exceptional achievements, he added.
The job listing comes on the heels of Srinivas’s recent visit to India where he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We had a great conversation about the potential for AI adoption in India and across the world,” the IIT Madras graduate said.
Perplexity was founded in December 2022 by Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. Its main product is an “answer engine” that uses the latest AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic to give direct, detailed answers in response to a user’s search query, with links and citations.
It claims that “every answer” is “backed by citations from trusted news outlets, academic papers, and established blogs”. According to the company, Perplexity has over 10 million active users worldwide.
Perplexity’s answer engine has made waves in the booming AI industry by threatening the dominance of tech giants such as Google in the search market. It has been backed by high-profile investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, chip giant Nvidia, and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), among others.
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The AI-based search startup raised over $500 million in its latest funding round at a valuation of $9 billion.
However, Perplexity is also facing copyright infringement lawsuits filed by publishers like The New York Post and Dow Jones. Others like The New York Times and Condé Nast have shot off cease-and-desist letters to the AI startup for allegedly crawling their websites when it was not supposed to and reproducing portions of news articles verbatim.
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