Perplexity served 780 million search queries in May, which are rising by 20% month-over-month, CEO Aravind Srinivas said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. He’s now eyeing 1 billion queries per week by the end of the year.

The surge in queries reflects Perplexity’s effort to muscle its way into the AI search race, where Google still dominates, though its grip appears to be loosening while OpenAI is circling the runway. Last August, Perplexity was processing north of 230 million queries globally each month, ADWEEK previously reported.

Srinivas positioned Perplexity as a search engine built for accuracy, an antidote to the hallucination-prone answers plaguing many AI rivals.

Meanwhile, Google’s AI Overviews can’t seem to remember what year it is.

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