The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it's betting on a smaller, more valuable ...

Perplexity began testing sponsored placements in 2024. It’s abandoning them, saying labeled ads can erode credibility.

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The AI-powered answer engine, Perplexity, has decided to abandon advertising for now as the company believes sponsored ...

Perplexity is taking a firm stand against ads in its AI chatbot, arguing that monetisation could damage the trust and accuracy that users rely on, just as rivals move in the opposite direction.

“A user needs to believe this is the best possible answer, to keep using the product and be willing to pay for it,” an unnamed Perplexity executive said at a media roundtable, per the Financial Times.

Perplexity’s AI search lead faded as Google and OpenAI added similar answer tools; founded in 2022, it remained a niche ...

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AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy. Perplexity was ...

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Perplexity was one of the first AI search companies to test ads, placing sponsored answers beneath chatbot responses. It said at the time that ads were clearly labeled and didn’t influence outputs.