Perplexity Finance now offers live transcriptions, schedules of earnings calls for Indian stocks: Aravind Srinivas

Perplexity Finance, which provides real-time market data via the Perplexity Finance dashboard, now offers live transcriptions and schedules of earnings calls for Indian stocks, Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity AI, said in a post on X.

“Perplexity’s Finance dashboard now supports live earnings call transcriptions and features earnings call schedules for Indian stocks. We hope to add a lot more value to Indian equity markets research in the coming days! Enjoy!” reads Srinivas’ post. Srinivas shared John-Michael Murphy’s post, who serves as a member of technical staff at Perplexity, according to his LinkedIn profile. Murphy said that the engineering and quality control on this feature was ‘non-trivial.’ “Lots of data to capture and present accurately,” the post added. Answering a user on whether a separate app will be made available for this, Srinivas replied, “We have a simpler idea than that. Just give us a few weeks!”

This feature follows a landmark move with a tie-up with Bharti Airtel last month. As part of the tie-up, Airtel will offer a free 12-month subscription of Perplexity Pro—worth ₹17,000 annually—to all its 360 million customers across mobile, broadband, and DTH services. This marks Perplexity’s first collaboration with an Indian telecom provider and is being hailed as a game-changer in the GenAI space for its scale and potential impact.

Perplexity also stunned industry observers and pundits alike when it formally made a bid to purchase the Chrome browser from Google for a whopping $34.5 billion. The acquisition is a major component of the San Francisco-based startup’s effort to become a forerunner in web browsers.

“For us, this is an important commitment to the open web, user choice, and continuity for everyone who has chosen Chrome. The formal offer letter to Google contains several important elements,” the spokesperson told Fortune India. As part of the offer, Perplexity would have continued the “ongoing and substantial investment in Chromium” worth $3 billion over the next two years, following the acquisition. 

The offer comes at a time when regulatory scrutiny of Chrome is at its peak, with the U.S. Department of Justice suggesting remedies that include Google to forcibly sell the Chrome browser and license its search data to competitors. Having previously called Google a “monopolist,” U.S. federal judge Amit Mehta is expected to issue his decision on these proposed measures in the coming days, and hence, the active interest and offers from AI startups.

The acquisition entails that of Chrome, the web browser application that comes pre-installed across smartphone and tablet devices, including Samsung, Motorola, and Nothing, among others, alongside the open-source Chromium software, which people use to access the web on PCs.