The startup, which is building an artificial intelligence search engine to compete with Google, has allocated $42.5 million to be distributed among publishers in the program, according to Perplexity Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas.

Last week, a New York federal court denied Perplexity’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit from News Corp. – which owns The Post and Dow Jones – accusing the AI startup of ripping off its copyrighted

The media industry has clashed with AI firms, including ChatGPT and Google Gemini, over use of their work for AI responses. Perplexity is proposing to fix that.