Perplexity R1 1776
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Perplexity AI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Aravind Srinivas — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Aravind Srinivas (CEO/Co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Retired (no longer sold)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (rule-based): Capability 4/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 4.5/10 → 3.77
- R · What Makes It Special
- DeepSeek-R1 post-trained by Perplexity to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship while keeping its reasoning ability; released with open weights under the MIT license in February 2025. Perplexity has since removed its own Hugging Face repository, but community copies remain.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($9B valuation, 2025)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @perplexity_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights LLM from Perplexity AI, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Perplexity R1 1776.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/perplexity-r1-1776.html