Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube (a Google subsidiary), and Jeff Dean, Alphabet's chief scientist focusing on AI and an early member of Google Brain, have both reportedly invested in Perplexity AI.
While these are individual investments, they indicate some level of connection between individuals with close ties to Google and the AI startup.
while Perplexity AI is positioned as a competitor to Google in the search and AI space and has attracted significant investment from other major players, there is no readily available information indicating a direct investment from Google itself. Google's investment strategy in AI seems to focus on companies like Anthropic, alongside the extensive investments in Gemini
Notable thing is Perplexity founder worked directly under Larry Page as a core dev in Google search :-) ...one team !
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