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Perplexity AI from founding to now: its own record, public attention and milestones
Perplexity AI month by month, 683 Hacker News stories naming it, funding rounds, lawsuits and the IPO filing on one time axis, and which teams publish what.
Birth to now
Dec 2022 to Oct 2026On Hacker News
most discussed- Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ↗14 Sep 2026 · 219 points · 217 comments · links to law.justia.com
- Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them ↗2 Sep 2026 · 519 points · 251 comments · links to trellner.com
- Personal Computer by Perplexity ↗11 Mar 2026 · 223 points · 173 comments · links to perplexity.ai
- Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations ↗12 Aug 2025 · 199 points · 93 comments · links to niemanlab.org
- Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome ↗12 Aug 2025 · 192 points · 119 comments · links to wsj.com
- Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives ↗4 Aug 2025 · 1,315 points · 748 comments · links to blog.cloudflare.com
- Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet ↗10 Jul 2025 · 291 points · 122 comments · links to browseros.com
- Google contract prevented Motorola from setting Perplexity as default assistant ↗23 Apr 2025 · 255 points · 196 comments · links to bloomberg.com
Public discussion, not the company's words; threads with the most points that name it in the title.
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