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.
自年初以来，Perplexity AI公司的营业收入和使用量增长了700%，此次人工智能技术创业公司完成了250 million美元的新融资。
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.
这个人工智能驱动的搜索引擎说它在过去一个月回答了大约250 million个问题，高于去年所有500 million个查询的总和。《金融时报》报道说。
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.
总部位于旧金山的Perplexity是由前Google实习生Aravind Srinivas创立的公司，该公司使用人工智能软件从互联网上“实时”获取信息来回答问题。
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).
这家公司自年初以来的年化营业收入从500万美元增长到了3500万美元，正在将其业务模式从订阅转变为广告，以与搜索广告巨头Google竞争，而Google隶属于Alphabet Inc（纳斯达克：GOOG）（纳斯达克：GOO GL）。
Read Also: Jeff Bezos-Backed Perplexity CEO Criticizes Google's Ad-Heavy Model: 'It Ended Up Going The Same Path As Yahoo'
另请阅读：Jeff Bezos支持Perplexity CEO批评Google的广告密集模式：“结果和Yahoo走了一样的路”
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的投资者包括人工智能芯片制造商Nvidia Corporation（纳斯达克：NVDA），亚马逊创始人Jeff Bezos，OpenAI联合创始人Andrej Karpathy和Meta Platform Inc.的首席人工智能科学家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的营业收入主要来自消费者和企业订阅，但最近它表示将于9月底在其平台上推出广告。
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.
首席商业官Dmitry Shevelenko表示，公司将在每篇带引用的赞助文章上分成“两位数”的营业收入，引用的新闻出版商包括《时代》、《明镜》和《财富》。
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《连线》于6月指控Perplexity抄袭，称这家人工智能初创公司在没有明确归属的情况下复制了文章，并刮取了明确拒绝其爬虫的网站。
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承认了这些指控，并表示公司已经修改了其用户界面，使引用更加突出，并确保其回复不摘要任何网站。
Read Now:
立即阅读：
- Jeff Bezos-Backed Perplexity AI Is Now A Unicorn After Latest Fundraise: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, Nvidia 'Doubled Down' On Support
- 通过最新的一轮资金筹集，Jeff Bezos支持的Perplexity AI公司现已成为独角兽公司：SoftBank的孙正义和Nvidia“加倍支持”公司。
Image created using artificial intelligence via Midjourney.
图像由Midjourney通过人工智能创建。