Perplexity is intensifying its competition with Google increasingly these days. The AI search startup, which recently made headlines in India for partnering with Bharti Airtel to extend free benefits to millions of subscribers, has now taken the next step to heat up the competition to Google. The new Perplexity Search API will provide developers with direct access to its massive, real-time web index.

The access to Perplexity’s Search API is aimed at evolving it into a foundational search infrastructure for the next generation of AI-powered products and autonomous agents, directly challenging Google’s longstanding dominance over web data.

The new API, which is available immediately with SDKs for Python and TypeScript, opens access to an index spanning hundreds of billions of web pages.

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