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Catherine Perloff @ The Information 3 place · 02/18/2026 10:34 EDT

Perplexity Ends Ads Experiment

Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine users’ ...

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