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Title: Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:22:50 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/trumps-...

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI
search feature powered by Perplexity. 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 copyright infringement, plagiarism
and stealth crawling 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 OpenAI announced 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
Perplexity's largest backers. This week Apple CEO Tim Cook presented Trump
with an engraved glass plaque set in a 24-karat gold base, to commemorate
domestic investments 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 Grok on X. Perplexity, for its part, gains exposure to a
new base of users to further train on.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/trumps-...
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