Perplexity just said it plans a 2028 IPO no matter how Anthropic, OpenAI, or SpaceX trade when they hit public markets.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-09

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas tells CNBC the company targets a 2028 IPO independent of how Anthropic, OpenAI, or SpaceX perform on public markets, and predicts the next AI phase will penalize inefficient token usage.

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Perplexity plans to go public in 2028 regardless of how competing AI companies perform after their own IPOs.
CEO Aravind Srinivas predicts the next phase of AI development will penalize companies that spend tokens inefficiently.
Perplexity is positioning its strategy around compute efficiency rather than raw scale.

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the next phase of AI will punish mindless token spending