Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC the company will go public in 2028 regardless of whether Anthropic or OpenAI have already launched their IPOs. The filing follows Anthropic and OpenAI's own S-1 submissions to the SEC as the AI wave matures into public markets.
For enterprise AI infrastructure investors, this signals confidence in AI search differentiation post-LLM commoditization. Perplexity's standalone timeline removes dependency-risk from market windows.