Perplexity Hits 780M Queries, Eyes 1B Weekly
AI Search Engine Shows Explosive Growth
Perplexity AI is making waves in the search engine market, processing a staggering 780 million queries in May alone. CEO Aravind Srinivas unveiled these figures at the Bloomberg Tech Summit, revealing the platform’s impressive 20% month-over-month growth rate.
“If this trajectory continues, we’ll hit one billion weekly queries within a year,” Srinivas predicted. “Our journey from just 3,000 daily queries at launch in 2022 to today’s 30 million per day demonstrates phenomenal progress.”
Comet Browser: The Next Frontier
Perplexity’s upcoming Comet browser could accelerate this growth even further. Srinivas described it as more than just another web browser – it’s being designed as a cognitive operating system that fundamentally changes how we interact with the internet.
Beyond Search: AI That Takes Action
Unlike traditional search engines, Comet aims to:
- Combine client and server-side computing seamlessly
- Transform passive queries into AI-powered actions
- Serve as a constant digital companion for work and personal tasks
“The internet has evolved from something we browse to where we live,” Srinivas explained. “Our browser needs to reflect this reality by being proactive and completely personalized.”
Strategic Business Implications
The company revealed another motivation behind Comet’s development: creating new advertising opportunities. By tracking user behavior across the web (not just within Perplexity’s app), the platform plans to offer hyper-personalized ads – a strategy that proved highly successful for Google.
Launch Imminent
While details remain scarce, Srinivas confirmed Comet will debut in the coming weeks. This launch could mark a significant turning point in how AI influences web browsing behavior and digital advertising.
As Perplexity accelerates toward its billion-query milestone, the tech world watches closely to see if this ambitious AI challenger can reshape the search landscape.