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SoftBank Partners with Perplexity; Free AI Subscriptions for Users

By:Maxwell

TapTechNews June 17, it was announced today that Japan's SoftBank has reached a strategic cooperation with the AI startup Perplexity, and will open the application for a one-year free trial of PerplexityPro to users of the three brands of Softbank, Y-Mobile and LINEMO on June 19.

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According to the introduction, PerplexityPro is the paid subscription version of the AI search engine Perplexity, providing more professional search times, self-selected AI models, limited uploading and analysis of files, and other functions. The one-year subscription is worth $245. (TapTechNews note: currently about 1790 CNY).

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Perplexity received a $62.7 million (currently about 456 million CNY) investment from SoftBank and Deutsche Telekom in April this year, and the company's valuation exceeded $1 billion (currently about 7.276 billion CNY).

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