Perplexity acquires data connectivity startup Carbon 

We're excited to announce that we've acquired Carbon, a retrieval engine that connects external data sources to large language models. Soon, we'll integrate Carbon's data connectors into our tech stack, allowing users to connect apps like Notion and Google Docs directly to Perplexity. As part of the acquisition, we're excited to welcome all members of the Carbon team to Perplexity to expedite our roadmap and ship new features faster. 

We believe your AI should be personal to you — at home, work, or on the go — and data connectivity is a key part of everyone's daily workflows. Carbon will make it easier for Perplexity's answer engine to be informed by diverse sources of information, whether that data resides in internal databases, cloud storage, or document repositories.

Rather than making users search through many different web pages, apps, and messages to find the answer they're looking for, we see a future where Perplexity does the research for you, bringing the most critical insights across sources together as part of the answer. Carbon will simplify the process for our users to connect the data sources that matter to them. 

2024 was an unprecedented year of growth and product evolution for Perplexity. We launched Enterprise Pro, introduced new capabilities like Spaces and Internal File Search, and powered new search experiences, like shopping and analyzing live earning call transcripts. We're proud of what we've accomplished, and have lots more to come in 2025. 

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