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Perplexity received 780 million requests in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared on stage Bloomberg’s technological summit THURSDAY. Srinivas said the AI search engine saw more than 20% growth from one month to another.
“Give him a year, we will make, like a billion requests per week, if we can support this growth rate,” said Srinivas. “And it’s quite impressive because the first day of 2022, we made 3,000 requests, just one day. So, from there to make 30 million queries per day now, it was phenomenal growth.”
Srinivas then noted that the same growth trajectory is possible, in particular with the New comet browser that it works.
“If people are in the browser, it is an infinite retention,” he said. “Everything in the search bar, everything on the new tab page, everything you do on the sidecar, all the pages in which you are, these will all be additional requests by active user, as well as new users who are tired of inherited browsers, like Chrome. I think it will be the way to develop during the next year.”
Srinivas said the reason why the perplexity is to develop the comet is to move the role of the AI to simply provide responses to really finish actions on your behalf. He explained that when you get a response fueled by AI, these are mainly four or five research in one. On the other hand, the AI performing an action would be to do an entire navigation session with an prompt.
“You must really have a browser and hybridize the calculation of the customer and on the server side in the most transparent way possible,” he said. “And it calls to rethink the whole browser.”
He continued by explaining that perplexity does not consider the comet as “yet another browser”, but as a “cognitive operating system”.
“It will be there for you every time, at any time, for work or life, as a system on the side, or like, I just do navigation sessions for you,” said Srinivas. “And I think that it will fundamentally rethink the way we even think of the Internet. As, sooner, we would travel the Internet, but now people live more and more on the internet. As many of our life really exist there. And if you want to build a proactive and personalized AI, it needs to live with you, and that is why we need to completely rethink AI.”
Although the company has not found the browser too much, Srinivas said in April That perplexity is to develop your own browser is to follow the activity of users beyond its own application so that it can sell premium announcements, which would essentially reflect what Google did quietly to become the giant that it is today.
We do not currently know when the comet will launch exactly, but Srinivas has already said on X that it will be launched in the coming weeks.
