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  San Francisco, June 2025 — Launched in December 2022 by former OpenAI and Google engineers, Perplexity AI has quickly emerged as a significant AI-powered contender to Google Search . 🚀 Rapid Growth & Impressive Metrics May 2025 usage reached 780 million queries , up more than 20% month-over-month and averaging 30 million/day. The company reports approximately 22 million active users. Growth stage aims include scaling to 1 billion queries weekly by year-end. 💰 Funding & Valuation Currently in late-stage fundraising, seeking $500 million at a $14 billion valuation , up from $9 billion in December 2024. Investors include Accel (leading), Nvidia, SoftBank, Bezos, NEA, IVP, and others 💡 Innovation & Product Strategy Offers GPT‑4.1, Claude, Gemini, Grok and its own models (Sonar, R1), delivering direct, cited conversational answers   Developing its “Comet” browser as an AI-integrated experience; Android/iOS assistant launched Jan 20...

  As of 2025, the generative AI landscape has evolved into a three-way battle. ChatGPT by OpenAI, Gemini by Google, and Claude by Anthropic are all pushing forward aggressively with technological advancements and ecosystem integrations to claim market leadership. ChatGPT: Dominating User Base, Strikes Back with GPT-4o OpenAI introduced GPT-4o in May 2024 — a real-time multimodal model that processes text, audio, and images. Unlike past models, GPT-4o is available to both free and Plus-tier users, expanding accessibility. The ChatGPT mobile app includes a real-time voice assistant on iOS and Android, positioning it as a viable alternative to Siri and Google Assistant. Strengths : Massive user base, rapid updates, growing third-party app integration Weaknesses : Real-time web browsing limited to Plus subscribers Gemini: Google’s Full-Stack AI Strategy Google’s Gemini line officially replaced Bard in early 2024. With Gemini 1.5 Pro , the model is tightly integrated ac...