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Perplexity AI: the answer engine with a lot of question marks

Here’s our coverage of the ongoing developments.

The company, which has already received funding from the likes of Jeff Bezos and is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars more, advertises on its website that “every answer” is “backed by citations from trusted news outlets, academic papers, and established blogs. However, plagiarism and paywall problems have made Perplexity a lightning rod for media industry frustrations as it attempts to overtake Google for the future of search on the internet. Pages taps Perplexity’s AI search models to find information and then creates what I can loosely call a research presentation that can be published and shared with others.

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