
Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.

Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.

Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.

Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline rewrites in search results - not pulling from existing page elements, but creating entirely new titles that can change the meaning of articles.

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