AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok

Perplexity said it would build infrastructure for TikTok at data centres in the United States and maintain it with US oversight. PHOTO: REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO – Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on March 21 expressed its interest in buying TikTok, which faces a deadline to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States. Perplexity in a blog post laid out a vision for integrating its AI-powered internet search capabilities with the popular video-snippet sharing app. "Combining Perplexity's answer engine with TikTok's extensive video library would allow us to build the best search experience in the world,"…