{"id":947908,"date":"2025-07-19T07:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947908"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:17:46","slug":"startup-perplexity-ai-hits-18-billion-valuation-after-100-million-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/19\/startup-perplexity-ai-hits-18-billion-valuation-after-100-million-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Perplexity AI hits $18 billion valuation after $100 million funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI has secured fresh funding in a deal that values the artificial intelligence startup at $18 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The company raised $100 million in this latest investment, which builds on a previous round from a few months ago that valued Perplexity at $14 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The growing adoption of chatbots and the rise of AI agents have increased investor enthusiasm in such startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perplexity AI has secured fresh funding in a deal that values the artificial intelligence startup at $18 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company raised $100 million in this latest investment, which builds on a previous round from a few months ago that valued Perplexity at $14 billion. The growing adoption of chatbots and the rise of AI agents have increased investor enthusiasm in such startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947908","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}