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The media company has also alleged that Perplexity's AI agent Comet is also scraping its paywalled content.
The Limited Partners (LPs), or investors, in the fund include prominent technology leaders such as Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO, Perplexity.
In response, Perplexity has termed Amazon's letter as a "threat to all internet users".
As part of the agreement, Perplexity will provide image credit with link to source to educate users on how to use a licensed image legally.
In July, Google had announced a free one-year AI Pro plan for college students in India.
China's DeepSeek, which shook the AI industry after it launched a new AI tool in January this year, had only 2.7 billion web visits.
Perplexity's ambitious bid represents more than double Perplexity's own $14 billion valuation as the company seeks access to Chrome's massive three billion user base.
Last year, Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon.
The move marks its bid to expand its reach and change the way people browse the internet which is currently dominated by Google Search.
This marks Perplexity’s first partnership with an Indian telecom company.
For the wider rollout, Comet will be an invite-only product for which people will have to wait over the summer.
Google noted that the response to AI Mode since it was introduced in June in India as an experiment has been "encouraging".
The Head and Tale did a small experiment of its own and ran this sample word-for-word in AI Mode, Perplexity and ChatGPT to compare the suggestions they threw up.
