AI start-up Perplexity has reportedly decided to halt its advertising efforts. Unlike its competitors, who are embracing ad-based models, Perplexity is worried about the possible impact on users’ ...

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AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising over fears that it will erode user trust, despite rivals pushing ahead with introducing ads as they seek strategies to make money from the technology.

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

One exec quoted in the report said advertising risks making users “suspicious of everything”. “A user needs to believe this is the best possible answer, to keep using the product and be willing to pay ...

Artificial intelligence plays an important role in daily work and research, with many people depending on the technology for ...

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.

The company quietly phased out sponsored content late last year, ending an experiment that began in 2024 when labeled promotions occasionally appeared beneath chatbot responses. On ...

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 ...

Perplexity has launched Model Council, a new AI feature that runs queries across three models at once, compares their ...

Perplexity requires public attribution for any shared output, regardless of context; posts must name Perplexity as the source ...

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