TLDR

• Perplexity AI’s ARR jumped 50% to over $450 million in just one month
• The surge was driven by the launch of “Perplexity Computer” and a new usage-based pricing model
• The company now has over 100 million monthly active users and tens of thousands of enterprise customers
• Perplexity was last valued at $20–$21.2 billion; prediction markets now price a 13% chance of a $50–75 billion valuation
• The company faces copyright and privacy lawsuits from pu