Perplexity Expands Partnership with SoftBank to Launch Enterprise Pro Japan

We're excited to announce a strategic partnership with SoftBank Corp. to launch Perplexity Enterprise Pro for corporate customers in Japan. This collaboration makes SoftBank the first authorized reseller of Perplexity Enterprise Pro, marking a significant milestone in our international expansion.

This distribution agreement leverages SoftBank's enterprise sales team to scale Perplexity's presence across Japanese corporations. As one of Japan's leading technology infrastructure providers with extensive reach across the country's largest companies, SoftBank provides an opportunity for Perplexity to penetrate Japan's corporate market with Enterprise Pro.

Before offering Enterprise Pro to their corporate clients, SoftBank implemented it across their own internal teams, thoroughly testing and validating the product's business value over the last six months. SoftBank's internal adoption demonstrates confidence in Enterprise Pro's ability to deliver meaningful productivity improvements for Japanese enterprises.

This partnership builds upon our existing alliance between Perplexity, SoftBank, Y!Mobile, and LINEMO that began in June 2024 when SoftBank started accepting applications for a one-year free trial of Perplexity Pro for individual customers.

SoftBank's deep relationships with Japanese enterprises across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology sectors will help Perplexity overcome market entry barriers that typically challenge foreign AI companies. Through their "turn-key solution system" approach to enterprise digitalization, SoftBank has established trusted advisory relationships with companies looking to modernize their operations

By implementing Perplexity Enterprise Pro, Japanese businesses can harness the power of AI-driven search, transforming how teams access and utilize information. These enterprises will join over 7,000 organizations currently using Perplexity Enterprise Pro, including NVIDIA, Databricks, Stripe, Zoom, and Snowflake, collectively executing nearly 20 million queries daily.

We have shipped exciting feature updates to Perplexity Enterprise Pro over the last month, including:

• Deep Research: Advanced capabilities that allow users to conduct comprehensive research with greater depth and precision

• Connect premium data and internal knowledge bases: Search across the web, premium sources like Crunchbase and FactSet, and internal files from File Apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, and SharePoint files all in one place.

• Enhanced Security Hub: Give admins precise control over your organization's security settings including AI model control, data retention, and user permissions.

With Enterprise Pro, organizations benefit from:

• Increased Data Privacy: Your data stays yours, period. We never train our LLMs on our enterprise customers’ data.

• Enhanced Security: Get alerts about new file uploads to keep your documents in check.

• User Management: Add or remove team members easily.

• SOC2 Certification: A gold standard in security.

• Data Retention: Your queries stay private and are deleted after 7 days.

• Single Sign-On (SSO): Quick and secure access to your corporate systems.

This partnership with SoftBank represents a key step in our global expansion strategy, following earlier partnerships with South Korea’s SK Telecom and Germany's Deutsche Telekom.

For more information about Perplexity Enterprise Pro please visit: https://www.perplexity.ai/enterprise