Odaily News On Saturday, Perplexity AI officially launched its acquisition of TikTok and submitted an acquisition offer to its parent company ByteDance, intending to merge Perplexity, TikToks US business and new capital partners into a new entity. A person familiar with the matter revealed that the new structure will allow most of ByteDances existing investors to retain their equity and will bring more videos to Perplexity. Perplexity AI is an artificial intelligence search engine startup that competes with OpenAI and Google. Against the backdrop of the booming development of artificial intelligence, it has attracted more and more investor interest. The company was valued at approximately US$500 million in early 2024 and approximately US$9 billion at the end of the year. (CNBC)