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

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Perplexity has said it will not introduce ads into its chatbot responses, distancing itself from OpenAI’s new advertising push in ChatGPT. The move comes as OpenAI begins testing ads for ...

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

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

Perplexity, a San Francisco-based AI startup, emphasizes subscriptions and business sales, diverging from OpenAI's ad-centric approach.

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

Perplexity is reportedly distancing itself from OpenAI's ad-based monetization strategy for chatbots, aligning with Anthropic ...

“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 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.

While Perplexity’s ads were labelled as sponsored and had no effect on the chatbot’s response, an executive said that “the challenge with ads is that a user would just start doubting everything… which ...