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Snap Cancels Planned $400 Million Deal With Perplexity AI
“Four hundred million dollar deal with perplexity is no longer happening. I guess that's been pulled back on.”
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.”
Coogan: Perplexity AI's Valuation Is Estimated at $18 Billion
“So perplexes offers significantly more than its own valuation, which is estimated at eighteen billion.”
Hays: Perplexity submitted a bid to acquire TikTok earlier in 2025
“Perplexity was also bidding on Tik Tok earlier this year.”
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…”
Perplexity Launched an AI-Native Competitor to Google Shopping
“They launched their competitor to Google Shopping, and it's just much more AI native, much more driven by, take a picture.”
Coogan: Perplexity is making more money than MP3.com ever did
“And it's interesting because, I mean, Perplexity is 100% making more money than mp-three.com ever did.”
Coogan: Perplexity reached #1 overall in India's App Store
“Just one month ago on July, 18th, 25 perplexity reached number one overall in India's app store.”
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…”