Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models. Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash) Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data […]
Aravind Srinivas has never made a “traditional” pitch deck to raise funding for Perplexity AI. Why bother, when he has his own product to do so. Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas. (Reuters) “Famously, the Series A was the only time I made a pitch deck,” Srinivas, who co-founded the San Franscisco-based AI startup in 2002, […]