Perplexity
also referred to as: perplexity ai
includes Perplexity Computer, Perplexity Discover, Perplexity Pro
35 statements across 11 episodes · 15 bullish · 7 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 12, 2024 by John Coogan · said 218 times in 54 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by John Coogan (96), Aravind Srinivas (22), Jordi Hays (17), Mark Gurman (2), Garry Tan (2), Sean Frank (1), Nichole Wischoff (1), Mark Cuban (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
- Allbirds’ AI Pivot, Snap Cuts 16% of Workforce, Amazon’s GlobalStar Deal | Diet TBPN
- Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- U.S. AI Execs Warn as China’s AI Push Grows, Substack Adds AI Detection Tool | Diet TBPN
- XBOX Layoffs, Tesla's New Model Y, $12.8M Lottery Dispute | Diet TBPN
- CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 141 mentions in 32 episodes 4 per episode
- Perplexity Founder Explains What Comes Next - Aravind Srinivas on TBPN April 23rd
- Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- Elon's Trillion Dollar Pay Package | Diet TBPN
- Conor Macdonald on "Why Meta Ads Are Failing" and "How AI is Saving E-Commerce".
- 24 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 56 mentions in 13 episodes 4 per episode
- CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Perplexity, oldest first
Nov 12, 2024 neutral
Nov 23, 2024 positive
Jan 23, 2025 positive
Jan 25, 2025 bearish
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Perplexity will allow user thread publishing on Discover feed
“We have this thing called Discover and we're trying to increase the volume of content on Discover, and once we do that in an automatic way with curation to users interest. Like we're going to let some of the users pub try to like publish it to discover on thei…”
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Perplexity is building a browser to capture broad user context
“That's kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser is like, we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you. Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is It's purely work related. It's not like that personal. O…”
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Perplexity launched voice assistant early over waiting for perfection
“I'll literally read out to you the chat I had with our engineer who worked on this. Be good to launch and announce today, question mark. And then he's like, yes, still making improvements, but let's launch. And me like, do you want to address some of the onboa…”
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Srinivas: Perplexity replaced a three-model agent pipeline with a single model
“Before O-three, the way we built, like, our agents, is there would be one model that gave, came up with a plan for the query, another model that would execute the plan by converting the plan to, like, Smaller queries, filtering links, calling searches, and the…”
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Srinivas: AI subscription market will expand dramatically as agents perform tasks
“If AI start doing things, not just answering questions or writing code people will pay even more because they kind of think about it as hiring somebody. If you look at the amount of people, people pay for personal assistants, chiefs of, chief of staffs, person…”
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Perplexity will be pre-installed on Android phones as default assistant
“We are going to be partnering with a OEM. I think Bloomberg's already written about it. Perplexity will be pre-installed on the phones of that OEM, and we'll be able to, like, push notify all those users to set perplexity as the default assistant on the Androi…”
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity Will Keep Using Third-Party Models When Needed
“I think we'll continue to keep the same strategy, which is have a version of our product that can run with our own models, but not hinder or disrupt the user from this best experience that we can provide to them. If we're not able to do it with our own model, …”
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Super Bowl ad was mocked on X but drove mainstream Perplexity adoption
“Actually, if you notice the Superbowl tweets didn't actually matter on X, like most people made fun of it or didn't even engage with it, but it did help us get a lot of like mainstream normal people become aware of the app and use it.”
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Apr 25, 2025 neutral
Apr 25, 2025 positive
Srinivas: Apple SDK allows integration with Calendar, Mail, Maps, and Music
“A lot of it is still exposed in the Apple SDK through the events kit. So that's how we got things done, like calendar, mail, reminders. These are all part of their SDK. So you can actually call it podcasts, Apple music that's Apple maps. All of these are possi…”
Apr 25, 2025 bullish
Srinivas: Perplexity plans to invest more in RL post-training this year
“The nice thing is a lot of open source code bases exist on how to replicate GRPO or PPO and post training these models. And we've been doing that work already. So that's where we plan to invest more resources into for this year.”
Apr 26, 2025 bearish
Wischoff: Beyond OpenAI, Claude, and Perplexity, consumer AI lacks daily stickiness
“I don't know that I found anything even personally sticky enough that I'm like every day, like, you know, like messing around with it. And I, well, I guess it's not fair. Like obviously like open AI, like Claude and perplexity. But I think like on the everyday…”
Aug 12, 2025 positive
Aug 16, 2025 bearish
Aug 16, 2025 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 bearish
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Coogan: Perplexity offered to keep Google as Chrome's default search engine
“Perplexity told Sundar Pichai as part of the proposed acquisition, it would maintain and support Chromium, the open source project that supports Chrome and other browsers. It also said it would continue placing Google as the default search engine within Chrome…”
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 bearish
Aug 19, 2025 bearish
Hays: Perplexity won't significantly outvalue Snapchat in two years
“Search Feels like it'll be a winner take, take all market, and it's, they're not gonna, you know, two years from now, if they're sitting at thirty million monthly actives, or even a multiple of that, it's hard to see it, you know, being worth, ah, you know, si…”
Aug 19, 2025 bearish
Nov 4, 2025 bullish
Gurman: Apple built an in-house AI search to rival Perplexity
“What they haven't talked about Is AI web search. And so the new Siri is also going to have a chat GPT perplexity competitor for things like deep research and summarizing search. That is going to be an Apple built, an Apple powered system.”
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Nov 4, 2025 neutral
Gurman: Apple considered buying Perplexity due to Google antitrust fears
“First, on the perplexity, when I was the one who broke that, that was real. That did not come from perplexity. The idea there was Apple was sort of scared out of its mind that it was going to lose this Google search deal. It was a very real possibility the jud…”