this is Perplexity The second acquisition follows the 2023 acquisition of Spellwise, whose CEO was responsible for developing Perplexity's mobile apps.
With this acquisition of Seattle-based startup Carbon, Perplexity plans to enable searching for documents and work messages in enterprise apps such as Notion, Google Docs, Slack and others by early 2025.
Carbon specialize in RAG This technology and team will help Perplexity connect AI to enterprise databases and accelerate the development of enterprise search products.
"Carbon will help Perplexity's answer engine more easily access information from a variety of sources, whether from internal databases, cloud storage, or file repositories."
Enterprise AI search is an area of competition that is currently getting a lot of attention in the AI market. In its latest round of funding, OpenAI reportedly explicitly asked investors not to invest in another enterprise search company, Glean, at the same time. And Glean The emergence has also pushed a number of AI giants such as OpenAI and Google to develop their own enterprise search products.
This is Perplexity's second acquisition following the acquisition of Spellwise in 2023. Spellwise's CEO at the time was primarily responsible for developing Perplexity's mobile applications.
Perplexity recently raised $500 million in Series D funding and launched new features such as Enterprise Pro, Spaces and internal document search.
