Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, is an AI search feature powered by . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future.
“We’re excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions,” said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroiled time and again in accusations of , and websites for content and this latest partnership will likely only continue to fuel the turmoil around the company.
The partnership is the latest example of big tech finding opportunities to cozy up to the president. Just this week that it would be offering its ChatGPT Enterprise subscription to more than 2 million federal workers at practically zero cost. Choosing Perplexity as the engine for Truth Search AI also puts Trump Media in business with Jeff Bezos, one of . This week Apple CEO Tim Cook with an engraved glass plaque set in a 24-karat gold base, to commemorate by the company in an effort to avoid the president’s ire at the company’s foreign manufacturing of iPhones.
With the addition of Truth Search AI, Truth Social gains an AI layer to its platform without the expense of building one, presumably in efforts to keep up with the likes of . Perplexity, for its part, gains exposure to a new base of users to further train on.
