Artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity has been making frequent moves recently, and its acquisition of professional social platform Read.cv has attracted industry attention. This move marks Perplexity’s strategic expansion in the field of enterprise-level functions and knowledge management, and also adds new variables to the future development of Read.cv. Read.cv will cease operations this Friday, and users can export their personal data before May 16. This acquisition is Perplexity’s third transaction after the acquisitions of Carbon and Spellwise, showing its ambitions in the field of AI and its desire for market share.
Recently, artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity announced the acquisition of Read.cv, a professional social platform that competes with LinkedIn. With the acquisition agreement reached, Read.cv will gradually cease operations starting this Friday, and users will have the opportunity to export their data, including profiles, posts and messages, before May 16.
In the official blog of Read.cv, the team expressed their admiration for Perplexity and said that joining Perplexity is a new chapter full of expectations. Read.cv founder Andy Chung also shared the news on social platforms, saying that this was a "sad moment" but full of confidence in future cooperation. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas also said on social media that the team is very much looking forward to cooperating with the Read.cv team and plans to launch more exciting features in the future.
Read.cv was founded in 2021 to provide users with a series of tools to share their resumes and communicate with other professionals in the industry. The platform also provides organizations with features such as team profiles, job postings, and candidate searches. Recently, Read.cv launched a "website" feature that allows users to publish a personal website through a Read.cv profile, with the option to obtain a ".cv" domain name and connect it to the profile. Read.cv also plans to migrate the “.cv” domain names to its partner Hello.cv starting on January 31, and users will be able to continue to manage these domain names.
As for Perplexity's future plans for Read.cv, it's unclear at this time. However, Perplexity is increasingly investing in enterprise capabilities, launching an Enterprise plan last summer that includes features like user management and "internal knowledge search." Analysts said the moves may have to do with Perplexity's investors, who are desperate for returns. Perplexity has raised over $500 million in funding from multiple investors and is believed to be valued at $9 billion.
It is worth mentioning that this acquisition is Perplexity's third transaction following the acquisitions of Carbon and Spellwise, whose CEO has now joined the Perplexity team to develop its mobile applications. Perplexity's acquisitions demonstrate its ambitions in the fields of AI and knowledge management, and may provide users with more innovative social and enterprise features in the future.
The acquisition of Read.cv by Perplexity has brought a new development direction to the AI field and also provided a reference for other companies. In the future, the integration of artificial intelligence technology and social platforms will bring more possibilities, and it is worthy of our continued attention to its development.