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Perplexity was one of the first AI search companies to test ads, placing sponsored answers beneath chatbot responses. It said at the time that ads were clearly labeled and didn’t influence outputs.

AI search’s existential threat to news, as painted by The New York Times’ latest copyright complaint against Perplexity AI ...

Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT ...