Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too

$0.25-per-agency deal not finalized, and no FedRAMP approval either - so don’t get excited

Perplexity has entered the race to inject AI into the federal government with a new public sector version of its AI search engine, another AI discount, and a pledge to start enforcing new security measures for government-related use, which weren't applied by default until now.

Perplexity announced its new Enterprise Pro for Government offering on Monday, along with plans to better protect government users who are, according to the company, already making extensive use of the consumer version of Perplexity's AI search engine.

"Perplexity is proud to already serve thousands of U.S. federal employees each day," the company said. That use appears to be via the publicly available version of Perplexity, as we couldn't locate any public contracts with the US government in contracting databases. Perplexity also doesn't appear on the FedRAMP Marketplace, which means its cloud services aren't yet authorized for federal use.

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