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2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 22:37 Reed Albergotti And they would love to like disintermediate Amazon, like, like all these, all these chatbot companies perplexity to like, they'd love to just have you be able to shop on Amazon and never have to go to Amazon.
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 0:55 Jim Cramer But sometimes, the last line in Confessions of the Street Act, my first book is, it's better to be lucky than good, and I think that they had a series of setbacks, and you look, these high profile, no salary cap, take, uh, stealing of…
- ▶ 6:26 Jim Cramer I think that Apple's going to get a check beneficiary from someone, a perplexity.
- ▶ 28:24 Jim Cramer I mean, I'm like, do you know that at one point or another, I liked my perplexity.
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 39:56 Ranjan Roy Their browser, Atlas, I've tried it, used it, it's as good as Comet from Perplexity.
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk gets a one trillion dollar pay package to build an entirely new Tesla, and Amazon sues perplexity.
- ▶ 0:46 Alex Kantrowitz Tesla's, uh, shareholders, and Amazon has sued perplexity putting the bot internet into question.
- ▶ 41:33 Alex Kantrowitz Bloomberg says, uh, Amazon sues to stop perplexity from using AI tools to buy stuff. 8 times in the scene
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 51:09 M.G. Siegler We got perplexities browser doing some of that, but it's nowhere near it needs to be in terms of actual day to day usability and, and usefulness.
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 2:22 Ranjan Roy I've been using Perplexity Comet.
- ▶ 57:34 Ranjan Roy They're suing a number of providers, including perplexity for, uh, like, uh, you know, scraping Reddit data in unauthorized ways. 4 times in the scene
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 3:30 Rick Heitzman and I'm not available on a podcast, you know, those things have generally been broad based chat GPT or perplexity.
- ▶ 10:04 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I think it's kind of been this debate that's gone on, uh, where people say that any AI application is just a wrapper, like perplexity is just an AI wrapper that you do search in.
Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 28:55 Aaron Levie And so the kind of technologies that have clearly broken through our ChatGPT, products like cursor, products like, let's say, you know, a bunch of these kind of next gen research agent type things, perplexities done well in that kind of…
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 12:15 Alex Kantrowitz Does Samsung, for instance, by virtue of its partnership with perplexity now have potentially convert some iPhone users away from Apple or iPhone customers away from Apple because it has that generative AI, uh, offering?
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 1:58 Alex Kantrowitz Apple plans AI powered web search tool for Siri to rival open AI and perplexity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:35 Ranjan Roy So I think, and it's only to qualified competitors and what that means is that DuckDuckGo is that perplexity, I think is all up in the air. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Ranjan Roy Is it's getting people into Gemini while we're everyone's using chat GPT perplexity and Claude that apparently ten million people who are new to Gemini use the app to use it for images.
- ▶ 27:27 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, but ultimately I know about you, but I see myself doing more and more searches within a chat CPT and of course perplexity.
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 1:23 Ranjan Roy Was done in ChatGPT perplexity.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 32:50 Alex Kantrowitz NVIDIA owns stakes in OpenAI, XAI, Mistral, Perplexity, Cohere, Scale AI, 2 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 49:00 Stephen Morris A hated rival like Perplexity or OpenAI, buy that and have one of the best distribution methods for their AI technology in the world.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 6:13 Alex Kantrowitz One of the interesting details that has been overlooked in those hearings is that nobody, not Microsoft, not perplexity, or whoever it may be, can make money off of search in the way Google can.
- ▶ 20:35 Ed Zitron Perplexity hasn't.
- ▶ 53:50 Ed Zitron Perplexity releasing, like, a 1776 version of R-One without the Tiananmen Square thing. 4 times in the scene
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 9:01 unnamed speaker There's endless stats that, yes, like, the ChatGPT's perplexities, Gemini's of the world are seeing more adoption, but are people really adopting the level of complexity that this new level of compute and scaling allows you, or are people…
- ▶ 31:47 Alex Kantrowitz So one company that, you know, has been talked about here and elsewhere about as a candidate for aqua hire or really acquisition is perplexity. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:54 unnamed speaker Perplexity Pro has shopping
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 41:57 Alex Kantrowitz So I've been on the show advocating for perplexity.
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz We said, okay, they're going to have to make some dramatic moves, maybe grasp for a perplexity, do some, uh, acquisition or potentially even
- ▶ 16:16 M.G. Siegler Um, but the one above that, even for me was, uh, Anthropic, even though I don't think it's possible for them to do that for all sorts of reasons, namely the price at this point.
- ▶ 28:15 Alex Kantrowitz And that is that maybe Apple is in negotiations with perplexity and they're just trying to drive down the price saying, well, we could just easily bring in these anthropic models. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:10 M.G. Siegler And I should say our friends, uh, we often talk about perplexity are coming out with their own.
An AI Brain For Your Business?
- ▶ 20:25 Greg Anugas So we really like things like perplexity for scraping and web search.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 7:19 Alex Kantrowitz I really wouldn't be very different from all the bots on Twitter that came after me for my perplexity acquisition take, but anyway.
- ▶ 36:36 Alex Kantrowitz Such as perplexity and character AI. 6 times in the scene
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 34:59 Ranjan Roy That's essentially kind of like the chat interface chatbot experience that you would expect from a chat GPT or perplexity.
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 36:18 Alex Kantrowitz This is why I've been jumping up and down on the table for them to acquire perplexity would be the biggest acquisition in their history by far. 6 times in the scene
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- ▶ 9:24 Ranjan Roy Perplexity voice is so good.
- ▶ 25:00 Alex Kantrowitz And out walks Perplexity CEO Arvin Cernivas. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:57 Ranjan Roy Apple by perplexity and then release the Epstein files.
- ▶ 56:28 Ranjan Roy Well, we've seen this over and over on the publisher side, like perplexity in Forbes, but perplexity was even kind of presenting an image in a very long summary of paywalled content. 2 times in the scene
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 18:56 Ranjan Roy Perplexity is a media company.
- ▶ 49:45 Alex Kantrowitz Let's end, uh, with another story about how even in the, their current state, these models are ingesting everything, and that is perplexity partnering with PayPal for in-chat shopping. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:19 Ranjan Roy Cause again, before you had to subscribe to perplexity pro,
Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 46:51 Gary Marcus And what I was quote cheating there was something from Aravind Srinivas, if I pronounce his name correctly, who's the CEO of perplexity.
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
- ▶ 23:59 Ranjan Roy Cause I, I believe perplexity for their shopping.
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 41:46 Ranjan Roy I, uh, moved towards perplexity, ChatGPT even, and even like Gemini itself separate from Google's regular search that has heavy ads and a heavy ad load.
- ▶ 47:30 Ranjan Roy We've already seen, though, that perplexity has, if you're a perplexity pro subscriber, 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 28:53 Ranjan Roy And again, I use chat GPT frequently, but I also use all Claude perplexity, Gemini, everything.
- ▶ 38:16 Alex Kantrowitz For, like, finally just started connecting with the web, and we know perplexity is connected to the web as well and has a discover page where it will push you information.
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 21:49 Ranjan Roy I myself, this was an all perplexity, ChatGPT, even met a Ray-Ban asking questions on the fly trip for me.
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
- ▶ 7:05 Ranjan Roy To me, the, ah, man, it almost makes me question my normalcy because I'm on perplexity all day.
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 22:55 Alex Kantrowitz They of course have search as a, as a, I think a continuing liability where people will try the perplexities of the world.