Perplexity 🏢 Companies

Perplexity is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 1 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 2 to Sep 2 (peak 28 on Sep 2).

Perplexity, an SF AI search startup (and maker of the agentic browser Comet), competing with Amazon over shopping agents.

First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 15 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

Stage

💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources

Hype score

1.1 / 100 · +1.1 in 1 day · +1.1 in 7 days

In hype since

not in hype now

Peak, 30 days

27.5 on Sep 2, 2026

Category

🏢 Companies

Official site

perplexity.ai

Sources above normal

0 of 25 scoring it (0 independent families)

Stories in 7 days

169

Share of voice

0.5% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

Stories behind it

1. Downgraded from Max ($100) to Pro. How would you spend the other $80/month on AI tools? — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Sep 24 · score 18 · 71 comments
2. Show HN: CiteRank, track whether ChatGPT and Perplexity cite your site — Hacker News (citerank.thecompound.tech) · Sep 25 · score 3 · 3 comments
3. jayniebingyu-cyber/goaimoat-ai-visibility-mcp: GoAI Moat - AI Visibility Audit MCP server. Diagnose a brand visibility in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews). https://mcp.goaimoat.com/mcp — GitHub (jayniebingyu-cyber) · Sep 22 · score 1
4. Best AI Research Tools 2026: What Works — DEV Community (dev.to) (#programming) · Sep 27 · score 1 · 0 comments
5. Meta’s Muse Tries (and Fails) to Disrupt Amazon — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22
6. Surreal Dinner Series: AI & Design with OpenAI, Perplexity, & Sesame — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (Other)
7. America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/trump-admin-ai-copyright-lawsuits/688751/?utm_source=feed #AITheft #CopyrightInfringement #Intellec… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 0 comments
8. bsky.app/starter-pack... CALL OUT FOR A FULLY INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY: Investigating Boris Johnson’s Role in Russian State-Mafia Interference in UK Politics (2010–2022) #AIEvidentialMaterial #Ai #… — Mastodon (fediverse) (bsky.brid.gy) · Sep 27 · score 2 · 1 comment
9. Optimizing my AI subscriptions: Claude Pro (Opus) vs. ChatGPT Plus vs. Perplexity Pro? — Reddit (r/AI_Agents) · Sep 26 · score 10 · 15 comments
10. NINFER: Ternary Bonsai 2 27B at 167-210 tok/s on a single RTX 4090, native on Windows: a custom CUDA port, 2.25× faster prefill than the reference fork, same perplexity — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 24 · score 5 · 14 comments
11. Has anyone else encountered "invalid" or "no credits" errors with an active Perplexity Pro subscription? I keep running into this. Does anyone know what causes it and how to fix it? Which models have… — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 23 · score 1 · 1 comment
12. I need to research NSFW(P***) websites. Recommendations on wich LLM to use? — Reddit (r/LocalLLM) · Sep 23 · score 0 · 6 comments

Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 124 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Companies & business — 42% of its stories
• Models — 31% of its stories
• Agents — 15% of its stories
• Policy & macro — 11% of its stories
• Security & safety — 8.9% of its stories
• Usage & adoption — 8.1% of its stories

Related topics

Competes with

ChatGPT, Google DeepMind

Related to

Browser Use - browser agents, Agentic commerce

Mentioned with

Gemini (33 stories), Meta Muse (18 stories), Nvidia (16 stories), Meta Superintelligence Labs (5 stories)

Hype score, last 30 days

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