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Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple

Why Apple should buy Perplexity and possibly keep going
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping. Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup. Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense. Apple needs an AI strategy and story. Let's state the obvious: Apple is an AI laggard. Apple's…

Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.

Perplexity Max: 200 US-Dollar im Monat
KI wird teurer: Perplexity bringt ein neues Abo heraus. Max kostet 200 US-Dollar im Monat und beinhaltet dafür alle künftigen Anwendungen.
https://www.he…

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-b…

OpenAI, Perplexity browsers present direct challenge to Google Chrome's dominance
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.

Weltweite Fans empört, nachdem Paramount South Park im Ausland entfernt hat #paramount #SouthPark ** **https://www.

Perplexitys eigener Browser "Comet" mit integrierten KI-Agenten nun verfügbar
Comet basiert auf Chromium und nutzt Perplexity als Suchmaschine. Der Webbrowser mit eingebautem KI-Assistent ist vorerst Perplexity-Max-Abonnenten vorbehalten.

Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/perplexity-launches-comet-…

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
Perplexity is launching its first AI-powered web browser, Comet, marking the company's latest attempt to unseat Google Search.

»Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine:
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.«
Nutzt dies wer von euch schon und wie ist es zum nutzen? Wird dies evt auch von @… übernomen und sind KI Suchmaschinen wirklich besser als bisherige? Ich bin skeptisch…

Firefox experimentiert mit neuer Suchmaschine
Mit der neuen KI-Funktion möchte Mozilla seinen Nutzerinnen und Nutzern ermöglichen, dialogorientierte Antworten auf Fragen zu erhalten.

@… https://www.perplexity.ai/search/php-8-4-foreach-vs-array-any-w-NDNjK.gHSg60csuohX_ifQ#0…

#nokings #usa #usapol
Ich habe mit perplexity.ai eine Zusammenfassung erstellen lassen:
AUSZUG:
In mehr als 1.800 bis 2.000 Städten der USA – darunter New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia…

Now OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, and Perplexity's CEO admits his new AI-powered browser will track your history to sell you ads. As with DOGE's migration of the government to the cloud, AI is a smokescreen for a wholesale data grab https://

Opting Out of Generative AI: a Behavioral Experiment on the Role of Education in Perplexity AI Avoidance
Roberto Ulloa, Juhi Kulshrestha, Celina Kacperski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07881

Opting Out of Generative AI: a Behavioral Experiment on the Role of Education in Perplexity AI Avoidance
The rise of conversational AI (CAI), powered by large language models, is transforming how individuals access and interact with digital information. However, these tools may inadvertently amplify existing digital inequalities. This study investigates whether differences in formal education are associated with CAI avoidance, leveraging behavioral data from an online experiment (N = 1,636). Participants were randomly assigned to a control or an information-seeking task, either a traditional onlin…

Neben Gemini: Samsung soll bei Galaxy-Smartphones auch auf Perplexity setzen
Samsungs Galaxy-Smartphones könnten bald schon nicht nur KI-Dienste von Google an Bord haben, sondern auch die des Start-ups Perplexity.

Hard pass.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

こういうやつは、AIに下調べしてもらいましょう（練習）
※ AIの出力内容を鵜呑みにせず、ソースを見に行く、という習慣をつけてください。念のため。
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jemallocのGithubリポジトリがアーカイブされたようですが、その背景は？ 後継のメモリアロケーターは存在しますか？
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/jemallocnogithubrihositorikaak-MppvPQKVTjy.Bx52Eovcqg#0…

Perplexity should buy Chrome and then Apple should buy Perplexity. funniest possible outcome of a moronic DOJ-forced sale https://www.engadget.com/ai/apple-is-reportedly-considering-the-acquisition-of-perplexity-ai-150012746.html…

Apple is reportedly considering the acquisition of Perplexity AI
Apple's executives are thinking of acquiring Perplexity AI both to get more talent and to be able to offer an AI-based search engine in the future, according...

Perplexity launches a $200/month Max plan with unlimited Labs access, early access to features like Comet browser, and priority use of models like o3-pro (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/perplexity-launches-a-200-mo…

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan | TechCrunch
Perplexity launched a $200 monthly subscription plan this week, becoming the latest AI provider to offer a hyper-premium tier.

Low-Perplexity LLM-Generated Sequences and Where To Find Them
Arthur Wuhrmann, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Andrei Kucharavy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01844 htt…

Low-Perplexity LLM-Generated Sequences and Where To Find Them
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly widespread, understanding how specific training data shapes their outputs is crucial for transparency, accountability, privacy, and fairness. To explore how LLMs leverage and replicate their training data, we introduce a systematic approach centered on analyzing low-perplexity sequences - high-probability text spans generated by the model. Our pipeline reliably extracts such long sequences across diverse topics while avoiding degeneration, the…

Content Scraping: BBC droht Perplexity mit rechtlichen Schritten
Die KI-Suchmaschine Perplexity soll mutmaßlich Inhalte des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks Großbritanniens nutzen. Perplexity wittert dagegen Monopolismus.

#Perplexity Labs macht aus Künstlicher Intelligenz eine richtige Projektassistenz: Recherche, Tabellen, Diagramme, Mini-Apps – alles aus einer Hand. Perplexity zeigt mit Labs, wohin die Reise geht: Weg vom einfachen KI-Chat – hin zur vollständigen Projektassistenz. Der Nutzer formuliert das Ziel, die KI erledigt den Rest. Und genau das macht Labs so interessant.- Jörg Schieb |

Fascinating. Leaked LLM prompt instructions from most of the chat sites.
#AI

GitHub - elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S: SYSTEM PROMPT TRANSPARENCY FOR ALL - CHATGPT, GEMINI, GROK, CLAUDE, PERPLEXITY, CURSOR, WINDSURF, DEVIN, REPLIT, AND MORE!
SYSTEM PROMPT TRANSPARENCY FOR ALL - CHATGPT, GEMINI, GROK, CLAUDE, PERPLEXITY, CURSOR, WINDSURF, DEVIN, REPLIT, AND MORE! - elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S

Apple und Perplexity angeblich in Verhandlungen – bis hin zur Übernahme
Apple fehlt es an eigenem KI-Know-how, Produkte verspäten sich. Nun soll einem Bericht zufolge Perplexity helfen – und vielleicht Google auf Distanz halten.

Obłoki srebrzyste (Noctilucent Clouds, NLC)
a przynajmniej według Perplexity
piękne zjawisko i podobno bardzo rzadkie
co ciekawe wystąpiło chwilę przed 23:00 (wczoraj) i to na północ od miejsca w której się znajdowałem

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE

LLMs are starving for knowledge graphs. Raphael Troncy was pointing out that many LLM company crawlers are constantly visiting their KGs. Some crawlers even perform explicit SPARQL queries on the KGs.
#knowledgegraphs #eswc2025

News Source Citing Patterns in AI Search Systems
Kai-Cheng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05301

News Source Citing Patterns in AI Search Systems
AI-powered search systems are emerging as new information gatekeepers, fundamentally transforming how users access news and information. Despite their growing influence, the citation patterns of these systems remain poorly understood. We address this gap by analyzing data from the AI Search Arena, a head-to-head evaluation platform for AI search systems. The dataset comprises over 24,000 conversations and 65,000 responses from models across three major providers: OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google.…

Sources: Samsung and Perplexity in talks about an investment, preloading Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, adding its search to Samsung's browser, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19433 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Can Compressed LLMs Truly Act? An Empirical Evaluation of Agentic Capabilities in LLM Compression
Post-training compression reduces the computational and memory costs of large language models (LLMs), enabling resource-efficient deployment. However, existing compression benchmarks only focus on language modeling (e.g., perplexity) and natural language understanding tasks (e.g., GLUE accuracy), ignoring the agentic capabilities - workflow, tool use/function call, long-context understanding and real-world application. We introduce the Agent Compression Benchmark (ACBench), the first comprehens…

What's the Difference Between Agent2Agent and MCP? 🤔 🤖
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/what-s-the-difference-between-rR0BXpExRTuR2oGLquXZDg
i don´t know if you can read that in your language or not, if not, sorry. but i gues…

There's a lovely discussion on Twitter/X between humans and AI models (Grok and Perplexity) on whether a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant can provide meaningful vision to people born blind https://x.com/waleedd322/status/1927463484800835657

#Apple will #Perplexity AI kaufen oder als Partner gewinnen – weil die eigenen KI-Innovationen bislang eher „Siri-ös“ als seriös sind. Analysten sehen in Perplexity das fehlende Puzzlestück für Apples KI-Aufholjagd. Doch während Cupertino diskutiert, droht der Google-Deal zu kippen und Samsung klop…

Modern search demands scalable personalisation. Join Piotr Kobziakowski
at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to discover how Vespa's multi-stage ranking and tensor framework can be used for hybrid queries, multimodal retrieval, and real-time machine learning. Learn how to deploy low-latency, high-relevance search systems at petabyte scale.
Learn more:

Vespa.ai’s Personalized Search: Advanced Ranking & Tensor framework
Today’s applications require search engines to unify text, vectors, and business logic with millisecond latency at petabyte scale. It’s not easy to balance speed, relevance, and personalization for a large user population and a billion scale item base. Vespa.ai, the open-source engine powering Yahoo, Perplexity, Qwant, Vinted, Spotify addresses this through multi-stage ranking with close to data tensor operations and easy to understand custom functions. Vespa’s phased architecture enables…

私のAIの使い方のひとつ。
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【速報】障害者の解雇最多9千人|47NEWS（よんななニュース）
https://www.47news.jp/12772119.html
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速報はわかったが背景がわからん。調べてみよう（おもむろにPerplexityに調査を投げる）
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このニュースについて、背景や実態を調査してください。きっかけとなる制度改正などはありましたか？

Esoteric Language Models
Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Zhihan Yang, Yash Akhauri, Johnna Liu, Deepansha Singh, Zhoujun Cheng, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric Xing, John Thickstun, Arash Vahdat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01928

Esoteric Language Models
Diffusion-based language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) models by enabling parallel and controllable generation. Among this family of models, Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) achieve the strongest performance but still underperform AR models in perplexity and lack key inference-time efficiency features--most notably, KV caching. In this work, we introduce Eso-LMs, a new family of models that fuses AR and MDM paradigms, enabling smooth interpolation between their perp…

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-competition-whatsapp-chatbot-battlegro…

Meta faces AI competition as WhatsApp becomes chatbot battleground
WhatsApp has become a battleground for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.

#Google verabschiedet sich von der klassischen #Websuche: KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT & Perplexity liefern direkte Antworten, ohne Traffic weiterzuleiten. Newsletter, Podcasts, Communities: Direkte Leserbindung wird im KI-Zeitalter zur Überlebensstrategie. Wer seine Inhalte nicht für KI optimiert und…

in case i need to ask something outside the context of the reddit-posting or video:
- generate a temporary URL (with the full posting/video transcript)
- call perplexity by URL and add the URL as context
with that, i can ask everything (full context included) that needs a search 😍
#php #laravel

A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/…

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b743d401-dc5d-44b8-9987-825a4ffcf4ca

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-a…

Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups | TechCrunch
Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already

Sources: Meta held discussions with Perplexity about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a $14.3B investment in Scale AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/meta-discussed-buying-p…

#PerplexityLabs revolutionizes project management with advanced #AI automation capabilities for $20/month subscribers.
🔧 Creates detailed reports & interactive dashboards automatically using deep web research
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Sources: Apple executives have held discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20