---
title: "How Perplexity Lost the AI War"
source_url: https://youtu.be/a5OW2c2xvdw
captured_at: 2026-02-20
author: "Mondo Startups"
contributor: "ชิดชนก"
platform: youtube
---
# How Perplexity Lost the AI War

youtube video by **Mondo Startups**, 9m15s, uploaded 2026-02-13. URL: https://youtu.be/a5OW2c2xvdw

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- 2026-02-20 13:22 by ชิดชนก

## Description
For a brief moment, Perplexity looked unstoppable.

AI search was exploding. Investors were calling Google the next Blockbuster. And Perplexity — founded in 2022 by Aravind Srinivas and his team — looked like it might become the Netflix of search.

Fast answers. Clean citations. No ads.

So why didn’t it win?

In this video, we break down how Perplexity went from breakout AI darling to a niche research tool — and why competing with Google was always going to be harder than it looked.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Chapter 1
3:08 - Chapter 2
6:51 - Chapter 3
8:15 - Conclusion

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