Perplexity AI's Revenue, Usage Skyrocket As It Enters Into Advertising
Perplexity AI's Revenue, Usage Skyrocket As It Enters Into Advertising
Perplexity AI's revenue and usage has grown 700% since the start of the year after the artificial-intelligence tech startup closed a new $250 million round of funding.
自年初以來，Perplexity AI公司的營業收入和使用量增長了700%，此次人工智能技術創業公司完成了250 million美元的新融資。
The AI-powered search engine said it answered about 250 million questions in the last month, up from 500 million queries for all of last year, the Financial Times reported.
這個人工智能驅動的搜索引擎說它在過去一個月回答了大約250 million個問題，高於去年所有500 million個查詢的總和。《金融時報》報道說。
San Francisco-based Perplexity, which was founded by former Google intern Aravind Srinivas, uses AI software to answer questions by taking information from the Internet in "real time," the company said.
總部位於舊金山的Perplexity是由前Google實習生Aravind Srinivas創立的公司，該公司使用人工智能軟件從互聯網上「實時」獲取信息來回答問題。
The company, which saw annualized revenue grow from $5 million to $35 million since the beginning of the year, is changing its business model from subscriptions to advertising to compete with search ads giant Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL).
這家公司自年初以來的年化營業收入從500萬美元增長到了3500萬美元，正在將其業務模式從訂閱轉變爲廣告，以與搜索廣告巨頭Google競爭，而Google隸屬於Alphabet Inc（納斯達克：GOOG）（納斯達克：GOO GL）。
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Perplexity investors include AI chipmaker Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy and Meta Platform Inc.'s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun.
Perplexity的投資者包括人工智能芯片製造商Nvidia Corporation（納斯達克：NVDA），亞馬遜創始人Jeff Bezos，OpenAI聯合創始人Andrej Karpathy和Meta Platform Inc.的首席人工智能科學家Yann LeCun。
Perplexity's revenue has come mostly from consumer and enterprise subscriptions, but it recently said it would bring advertising on to its platform by the end of September.
Perplexity的營業收入主要來自消費者和企業訂閱，但最近它表示將於9月底在其平台上推出廣告。
It will split a "double-digit" percentage of its revenues on every sponsored article with cited news publishers that include Time, Der Spiegel and Fortune, chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko said.
首席商業官Dmitry Shevelenko表示，公司將在每篇帶引用的贊助文章上分成「兩位數」的營業收入，引用的新聞出版商包括《時代》、《明鏡》和《財富》。
Forbes and Wired accused Perplexity of plagiarism in June, saying the AI startup reproduced stories without clear attribution and scraped websites that had explicitly blocked its crawlers.
福布斯和《連線》於6月指控Perplexity抄襲，稱這家人工智能初創公司在沒有明確歸屬的情況下複製了文章，並刮取了明確拒絕其爬蟲的網站。
Shevelenko acknowledged the allegations and said the company has modified its user interface to make citations more prominent and ensure its responses do not summarize any websites.
Shevelenko承認了這些指控，並表示公司已經修改了其用戶界面，使引用更加突出，並確保其回覆不摘要任何網站。
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