Organization

Perplexity

Consumer products · Developer platform · Model developer · San Francisco, California

Perplexity makes an AI search and answer assistant that responds to questions with cited web sources. It also offers a developer API platform with web-grounded agent, search, embeddings, and model-routing APIs.3 4

Last reviewedSep 29, 2026Entry updated Sep 29, 2026

Key facts

Website: perplexity.ai (external site: perplexity.ai)
Legal name: Perplexity AI, Inc.1 3
Ownership: Privately held
Legal form: Delaware corporation, incorporated in 2022, per its 2023 SEC Form D notice.1
Headquarters: San Francisco, California1 2
Founded: 20221
Sectors: Agents

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Perplexity's main products are a hosted assistant and hosted APIs. It also publishes some model weights on Hugging Face, such as the pplx-embed text embedding models, which the model card lists under the MIT license and describes as derived from Qwen3 through continued pretraining by Perplexity.3 4 6

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

Labeled Closed product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It is not an open artifact and says nothing about other releases by the same organization.

Perplexity: hosted model products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Perplexity (external site: apps.apple.com)	Assistant app	AI search and chat assistant that answers questions with cited sources; distributed as a consumer app, including through the Apple App Store.3	Sep 29, 2026
Perplexity API Platform (external site: docs.perplexity.ai)	Hosted model API	Paid, API-key-based developer platform with an Agent API for web-grounded answers with citations using models from several providers, plus Search, Embeddings, and Router APIs.4 5	Sep 29, 2026

Related open artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

No open-artifact records in this catalog list Perplexity. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Perplexity AI, Inc. is a Delaware corporation. Its 2023 SEC Form D notice lists its principal place of business in San Francisco, California, and its current GSA eLibrary contractor listing gives a San Francisco address. The company's own website could not be retrieved for this review, so these government records are the basis.1 2

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Perplexity AI, Inc. Form D notice of exempt offering of securities (external site: sec.gov)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR) · Filing · published Apr 5, 2023 · accessed Sep 29, 2026
2.
GSA eLibrary contractor information for Perplexity AI, Inc (contract 47QTCA26D000N) (external site: gsaelibrary.gsa.gov)
U.S. General Services Administration · Other · accessed Sep 29, 2026
3.
Perplexity - AI Search & Chat App - App Store (external site: apps.apple.com)
Apple App Store (developer Perplexity AI, Inc.) · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026
4.
Overview - Perplexity (external site: docs.perplexity.ai)
Perplexity · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
5.
Agent API - Perplexity (external site: docs.perplexity.ai)
Perplexity · Documentation · accessed Sep 29, 2026
6.
perplexity-ai/pplx-embed-v1-4b model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Perplexity (Hugging Face) · Model card · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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