Perplexity has raised hundreds of millions from Jeff Bezos and Nvidia while clashing with top media organizations over alleged copyright violations.

Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence company building a search product that aims to compete with Google, is in early talks to raise funding from investors at a valuation of about $9 billion,

AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity's valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer.