AI News Roundup: AI-Powered Search Engine Perplexity AI, Now Valued at $520M, Raises $70M; Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up; & More Headlines
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- Apple Reportedly Outbids OpenAI in Race to Secure AI deals with Media Companies (via The Decoder)
- OpenAI Says It’s in Talks With Dozens of Publishers About Licensing Content (via Bloomberg)
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Perplexity***
- AI-Powered Search Engine Perplexity AI, Now Valued at $520M, Raises $70M ||| Jeff Bezos is Investing in Perplexity (via WSJ; subs only)
*** Ed. Note: We use Perplexity regularly and subscribe for the additional features. Even if it’s a tool you don’t find useful for regular use we still believe it’s a resource you should be aware of. We recently spoke about Perplexity at the CNI Fall Meeting. Key Features: provenance and timeliness. It uses it’s own LLM (others also available), it’s own web crawl and offers a “focus” search that provides responses from Semantic Scholar.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.