Perplexity Hires Engineer from LightOn to Boost Search
doesdatmaksense · x · 2026-08-20
Antoine Chaffin announced he is leaving LightOn to join Perplexity AI. He noted the difficulty of leaving LightOn but emphasized that the mission to solve search in the open remains the same.
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