Perplexity, an AI-powered search startup, secures $200 million in funding at a staggering $20 billion valuation, just two months after raising $100 million, positioning itself as a formidable challenger to Google's search dominance.
Google embraces multimodal AI search, expanding AI Mode with advanced Gemini 2.5 AI to 5 new languages - Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese - paving the way for an AI-led search experience as the default 'soon'.
Google expands its AI-powered Search to five new languages - Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese - enabling users to ask complex queries and explore the web more deeply using advanced language understanding capabilities.
Google expands its AI-powered Search Mode with task assistance for activities like booking restaurants, offering personalized recommendations based on user interests, while also rolling out to over 180 countries for complex query handling.
Profound, a startup aiming to optimize brand visibility in AI search, secures $35 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia, positioning itself as a pioneer in addressing post-SEO challenges as AI chatbots reshape the search landscape, offering solutions to monitor and optimize content for AI models.
Apple launches an 'Answers, Knowledge, and Information' team to develop a ChatGPT-like system that crawls the web and provides direct answers, aiming to enhance its AI capabilities with potential integration into Siri and other products.
Google's AI summaries discourage users from clicking source links, as they prefer browsing over visiting cited websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Reddit, with government sites appearing more frequently than in regular searches.
ChatGPT surges with over 2.5 billion daily requests, 330 million from US users, posing a major threat to Google's search dominance as OpenAI prepares to release an AI-powered web browser.
Slack unveils an AI-powered enterprise search feature, centralizing knowledge across conversations, data, and third-party apps, providing personalized, permission-aware results and transforming scattered information into complete answers with context.
Google faces EU antitrust complaint as Independent Publishers Alliance accuses tech giant of exploiting web content for AI summaries in Google Search, harming publishers who cannot opt out without vanishing from search results.