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Perplexity AI is accelerating its push into the financial data and research space, broadening access to AI-powered tools for market analysis and research. The platform’s latest expansion brings full coverage of Indian markets, complementing its existing U.S. and global offerings.
The latest move integrates live data for BSE and NSE equities across desktop, mobile web, and mobile apps, giving all users access to live stock prices, market trends, news, bull and bear case perspectives, explanations of notable price movements, historical data downloads, detailed financials with Excel model support, and live earnings coverage for select stocks. More Indian market features, such as natural-language stock screening and expanded price alerts, are scheduled to roll out.
Perplexity AI now has asset pages that span American and Indian equities, crypto, ETFs, indices, and commodities. From these pages, users can add items to their watchlist and set price alerts. Alerts can also be created directly from stock price widgets embedded in Perplexity answers, allowing targets to be set for specific prices or intraday movement thresholds.
Indian stocks are now covered on Perplexity Finance! Enjoy! 🇮🇳 📈 pic.twitter.com/VvNa4LqsXI
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) August 13, 2025
Perplexity CEO and Co-Founder Aravind Srinivas has also been vocal on X about the company’s ambition in the finance vertical. Srinivas posted to his X account:
“I am really encouraged by the interest in Perplexity Finance and the query growth in this vertical. It’s rare to see people complaining about things almost every day asking for features and changes. That’s a signal that you’ve shipped something good and are on a trajectory to keep improving it. We are going to put more resources into making this far better. I wasn’t f*ing around when I was tweeting about Bloomberg Terminal. Maybe it was unnecessary to position it as an alternative and my understanding of the Terminal was quite limited. But what is objectively resonating with all users is that finance products charge a lot and offer a pretty poor user experience and lack taste. We have the resources to fix this and this is a vertical that’s super aligned with one of the core values of the company and the product: Accuracy. Every single day, trillions of dollars worth decisions are being made and good decisions need to be grounded in an accurate understanding of the world. That’s where we hope to help. Accurate AI to help you make decisions. Meanwhile, please tag @jeffgrimes9 for all bugs here and help us improve the product even more!”
Additional Development – Perplexity's Bid For Chrome
Perplexity is also showing its ambitions elsewhere, in the browser space. As reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited USD 34.5 billion offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. The proposed acquisition comes as U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta considers remedies following his ruling that Google illegally monopolised the search market.
Perplexity said it has secured backing from investors, including large venture capital funds, to finance the deal in full. In a letter to Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Google parent Alphabet, the company described the offer as “designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy in highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable, independent operator.”
Google has not indicated any willingness to sell Chrome, which has around 3.5 billion users worldwide and holds more than 60% of the global browser market. Analysts consider the sale unlikely, though the judge has suggested it could be a “cleaner” remedy compared with other options under consideration, such as altering exclusive search engine agreements or requiring Google to share data with rivals.
