By Catherine Perloff
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 15:34:00
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’ trust in their platform, with an executive saying “the challenge with ads is that a user would just
