{"id":673788,"date":"2025-06-06T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/perplexity-received-780-million-queries-last-month-ceo-says\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:23:27","slug":"perplexity-received-780-million-queries-last-month-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/perplexity-received-780-million-queries-last-month-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity received 780 million queries last month, CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg\u2019s Tech Summit<\/a> on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month-over-month.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive it a year, we\u2019ll be doing, like, a billion queries a week if we can sustain this growth rate,\u201d Srinivas said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s pretty impressive because the first day in 2022, we did 3,000 queries, just one single day. So from there to doing 30 million queries a day now, it\u2019s been phenomenal growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it\u2019s working on. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf people are in the browser, it\u2019s infinite retention,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything in the search bar, everything on the new tab page, everything you\u2019re doing on the sidecar, any of the pages you\u2019re in, these are all going to be extra queries per active user, as well as seeking new users who just are tired of legacy browsers, like Chrome. I think that\u2019s going to be the way to grow over the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Srinivas said the reason Perplexity is developing Comet is to shift the role of AI from simply providing answers to actually completing actions on your behalf. He explained that when you get an AI-powered answer, it\u2019s essentially four or five searches in one. On the other hand, AI performing an action would be getting an entire browsing session done with one prompt.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really need to actually have a browser and hybridize the compute on the client and the server side in the most seamless way possible,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that calls for rethinking the whole browser.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to explain that Perplexity isn\u2019t thinking of Comet as \u201cyet another browser,\u201d but as a \u201ccognitive operating system.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be there for you every time, anytime, for work or life, as a system on the side, or like, just going and doing browsing sessions for you,\u201d Srinivas said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019ll fundamentally make us rethink how we even think about the internet. Like, earlier we would browse the internet, but now people are increasingly living on the internet. Like a lot of our life actually exists there. And if you want to build a proactive, personalized AI, it needs to live together with you, and that\u2019s why we need to rethink the browser entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the company hasn\u2019t revealed too much about the browser, Srinivas said in April that one reason Perplexity is developing its own browser is to track user activity beyond its own app<\/a> so that it can sell premium ads, which would essentially mirror what Google quietly did to become the giant it is today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s currently unknown when exactly Comet will launch, but Srinivas previously said on X<\/a> that it will launch in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Comet will have a native virtual meets recording, transcription and searches over them. Won\u2019t be part of the first release, but very fast follow up. As for release date: it\u2019s going to take a min of three weeks and a max of five weeks. Reliability and latency have improved over\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n