Perplexity is targeting a 2028 public debut and has no intention of moving that date forward, even as Anthropic and OpenAI both filed confidentially for IPOs this week. CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC the company is “agnostic” to how those listings perform.
That framing cuts two ways. Waiting means Perplexity gets to watch the first trillion-dollar AI IPOs set a public-market valuation template before it prices its own shares. It also means two years of additional revenue scale and product depth before facing quarterly earnings scrutiny.
Srinivas acknowledged the first-mover listings will shape the field. He added that he expects both companies to price successfully because their underlying businesses are performing.
Perplexity is the first major AI-native consumer company to publicly opt out of the 2026-2027 window. Whether that reads as confidence or as patience ahead of an untested public market depends on what Anthropic’s S-1 discloses.
Watch SpaceX’s debut. Srinivas named it a leading indicator for the Anthropic and OpenAI listings.
Reported by CNBC (cnbc.com), published June 9, 2026.
