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Perplexity acquired a small Seattle - based inauguration called Carbon which specialize in connecting AI organization to external data rootage , thecompanies announcedon Wednesday . chief executive officer Aravind Srinivasansaysthis will allow Perplexity to look through your files and work messages in Notion , Google Docs , Slack , and other enterprisingness app sometime in early 2025 .
Carbon specializes in recovery augmented contemporaries , or RAG , which allow large terminology example to access selective information from external databases before it generates an answer . By bring Carbon ’s engineering and faculty on board , Perplexity could be opening the threshold to launching enterprise search products . These tools link productive AI to enterprise database , allowing employees to quickly search through the mint of amorphous data their companies have produce over the years .
“ Carbon will make it easier for Perplexity ’s result engine to be informed by various source of information , whether that datum resides in inner databases , cloud storage , or document repository , ” said Perplexity in a command .
endeavour AI search is quickly becoming a competitive space in the AI world . OpenAI reportedly recite investors in its latest $ 6.6 billion unit of ammunition thatthey could not also endue in Glean , thecurrent frontrunner in enterprisingness hunting . Glean has reportedly inspired OpenAI , Google , and several other AI giant to develop their own enterprise search products — and perhaps they ’ve inspired Perplexity as well .
This is Perplexity ’s 2nd accomplishment , follow its2023 acquisition of Spellwise , whose CEO was brought on to develop Perplexity ’s nomadic app .
