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Alex Kantrowitz cites Apptopia data showing consumer AI app growth declining
“Daily active user growth across all AI, AI apps. So that includes perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world. ChatGPT, growth is not just tailing off, it's down. So you can see that, you know, while like the space is growing overall the growth is, is …”
Kantrowitz: Acquiring Perplexity would be Apple's largest acquisition by far
“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.”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity Is Raising at a $14B Valuation
“Now perplexity is out raising 14 at a fourteen billion dollar valuation right now.”
Kantrowitz: Perplexity Is in Talks to Integrate into Samsung Devices
“And perplexity is also right now in talks for a wide ranging deal to integrate its technology into Samsung devices.”
Perplexity sought a massive $50 CPM for its advertising product
“Perplexity hasn't. They wanted 50 dollars a CPM!”
Lanzone: All major search engines will route queries between AI and links
“This is clearly whether it's Bing,
Or ChatGPT standalone or perplexity standalone with hitting all the databases they're hitting or now Apple and Google and how they're going to do it. They're all going to be doing that the same way. And so for some queries, i…”
Perplexity and PayPal partner to enable native checkout directly within chat
“So perplexity announced a partnership with PayPal. We've talked about this a lot and perplexity has done a lot with shopping and they'll let you ask a question. They'll show you a bunch of potential results. Now with PayPal, you can check out directly, handle …”