{"id":897795,"date":"2025-01-20T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897795"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:03:19","slug":"ai-company-led-by-desi-ceo-wants-to-merge-with-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/20\/ai-company-led-by-desi-ceo-wants-to-merge-with-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"AI company led by \u2018Desi CEO\u2019 wants to merge with TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI, the AI-powered search engine startup led by Aravind Srinivas, has reportedly submitted a bid with TikTok parent company ByteDance to acquire its US business, proposing a merger with the popular video-sharing platform. The move comes as TikTok goes dark in the country with Apple and Google removing the app from their respective app stores.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a source familiar with the situation, a report by CNBC said that the proposed deal will see Perplexity AI merge with TikTok US, with ByteDance&#8217;s existing investors retaining their equity stakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI, the AI-powered search engine startup led by Aravind Srinivas, has reportedly submitted a bid with TikTok parent company ByteDance to acquire its US business, proposing a merger with the popular video-sharing platform. The move comes as TikTok goes dark in the country with Apple and Google removing the app from their respective app stores. Citing a source familiar with the situation, a report by CNBC said that the proposed deal will see Perplexity AI merge with TikTok US, with ByteDance&#8217;s existing investors retaining their equity stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}