AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.”
Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially increase the amount of information available” to users. Nonetheless, the social media platform maintains control over which sources of information the AI search engine draws from.
Truth Social is using the Perplexity Sonar API, which promises to query the web to retrieve current and verified informati