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Perplexity Launches Native Mac App with Advanced Features

CosmicTaco · 2024-10-25T09:32:47.866776+05:30

- AI search startup **Perplexity** launched its native Mac app to compete with AI apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe app. - The Mac app is free, but a **Perplexity Pro** subscription offers more than 300 Pro searches and other features for $20 a month or $200 a year. - The app allows quick invocation of the Perplexity search through keyboard shortcuts and access to voice mode, file upload, and voice dictation mode. - Users can ask follow-up questions and browse conversation history through the sidebar. - **Perplexity** is reportedly seeking to raise $500 million in funding that would double its valuation to $8 billion. Source: [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/perplexity-launches-a-native-mac-app/)

AI search startup Perplexity launched its native Mac app to compete with AI apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe app.
The Mac app is free, but a Perplexity Pro subscription offers more than 300 Pro searches and other features for $20 a month or $200 a year.
The app allows quick invocation of the Perplexity search through keyboard shortcuts and access to voice mode, file upload, and voice dictation mode.
Users can ask follow-up questions and browse conversation history through the sidebar.
Perplexity is reportedly seeking to raise $500 million in funding that would double its valuation to $8 billion.

Source: Techcrunch