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Perplexity, the California-based AI startup that is challenging the dominance of Google in the Internet Search market, is considering the development of a $50 device that brings the conversational search abilities of the platforms it offers on the consumer market. Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of the firm, recently posted on social networking platform X and said the company would definitely sell such a device if the post got more than 5,000 likes. Other AI startups have also tried making AI-only devices, the latest example being Humane and their AI Pin, but these devices have not caught mass attention because of buggy performance.
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Perplexity could succeed where others have failed as the firm has much more cash in the bank to hire the right teams for the purpose. News publication The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the startup is planning to raise more than $500 million at an upcoming funding round that would value the firm at more than $8 billion. The report claims that the platform the startup markets currently receives about 15 million queries a day and brings in around $50 million in annualized revenue. Perplexity uses AI to help people search the web in a chatbot-style interface.
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15. SPX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SPXC)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 22
SPX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SPXC) supplies infrastructure equipment serving the heating, ventilation, cooling, detection and measurement markets worldwide. The cooling products and engineered air movement solutions for the HVAC industrial and power generation marketed by the firm are directly linked to the construction and powering of AI data centers across the United States. On November 25, Wolfe Research initiated coverage of the stock with an Outperform rating and $199 price target. The advisory views SPX as an early-stage compounder, operating in the niche HVAC and detection and measurement markets, with attractive growth opportunities both organically and inorganically. The company is positioned towards the high end of the value chain in engineered niches with plenty of runway for continued bolt-on acquisitions to its existing platforms, Wolfe told investors in a research note.
