AI-driven search engine Perplexity recently announced the acquisition of professional social platform Read.cv. Read.cv will officially cease operations this Friday. This acquisition marks Perplexity's further expansion in the field of enterprise services and also brings the necessity of data migration for Read.cv users. Read.cv users can export personal information, posts, messages and other data before May 16, and can migrate the ".cv" domain name to the partner Hello.cv for continued use.
Professional social platform Read.cv recently announced that it has been acquired by AI-driven search engine Perplexity. The acquisition means that Read.cv will officially cease operations this Friday. After that, users can export their data, including profiles, posts and messages, until May 16.
Read.cv said in its official blog: "We have long admired Perplexity and believe that when the world's knowledge becomes more open and accessible, great things can happen. In this spirit, we are very excited to Join Perplexity’s design and engineering teams to continue our shared mission of exploration and discovery.” The news was also shared widely on social media.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas welcomed the move on social media, praising the Read.cv team for their ability to design and build consumer and social experiences, and looking forward to exploring new development directions with them.
Read.cv was founded in 2021 by Andy Chung, a former product designer at Facebook, Mozilla and Salesforce's Quip. The platform provides users with a range of tools to share their resumes and network with peers. In addition, Read.cv provides organizations with features such as team profiles, job postings, and candidate searches.
Recently, Read.cv launched the "Sites" feature, which allows users to create websites using personal profiles. Users can also obtain a ".cv" domain name from Read.cv and associate it with their personal profile. Read.cv stated that it will start migrating ".cv" domain names to its partner Hello.cv on January 31, and users can continue to manage these domain names.
At present, Perplexity's future plans for Read.cv are not clear, but it can be seen that Perplexity is gradually increasing its investment in enterprise service functions. Last summer, Perplexity launched an enterprise plan that offers features like user management and internal knowledge search. This move may also be to meet the needs of venture investors who want to get a return on their investment as soon as possible. Perplexity is said to have raised more than $500 million from multiple investors, valuing it at as much as $9 billion.
Read.cv is the third company Perplexity has acquired, following the acquisition of Carbon, which focuses on connecting AI systems with external data sources, and in 2023, Spellwise, whose CEO was brought in to develop Perplexity's Mobile App.
Highlights:
Read.cv was acquired by AI search engine Perplexity and will cease operations this Friday. Users can export data until May 16.
Perplexity CEO said he looks forward to working with the Read.cv team to explore new development directions.
Read.cv users can migrate the ".cv" domain name to Hello.cv and continue to manage their personal websites.
With this acquisition, Perplexity will integrate Read.cv’s team and technology into its own business, and its future development is worth looking forward to. Read.cv users need to back up their personal data in a timely manner and do a good job in domain name migration. Perplexity’s continued acquisitions also show its ambition to actively expand in the field of AI.