SK Telecom

[Alpha Biz= Reporter Kim Jisun] SK Telecom announced on the 13th that it has invested $10 million in the U.S.-based generative AI search engine startup, Perplexity, and that the two companies will further solidify their cooperation in the generative AI search engine business.

Additionally, Perplexity has agreed to invest in SKT's "Global AI Platform Corporation" (GAP Co.), established in Silicon Valley last year. GAP Co. is SKT's global AI service development entity, and it will collaborate with Perplexity to jointly develop AI search services.

The two companies formed a strategic partnership for AI search engine business collaboration at MWC 2024 in Barcelona this past February. With this mutual investment, they anticipate sustainable synergy in the AI business.

Perplexity is a U.S. startup offering conversational AI search services based on large language models (LLM). It is a unicorn company with investments from notable entities such as NVIDIA and Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos.

 

 

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