Perplexity AI targets 1 mn user sign-ups by mid-March, may offer free plan

Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) search startup, is targeting a million user signups by mid-March, hinting that its premium service plan may be offered for free to students in the country.

The US-based company is betting on specialising in trained models that can achieve improved outputs alongside improved experience for its users over pre-training models from datasets.