Perplexity hires engineer Antoine Chaffin from LightOn
capetorch · x · 2026-08-21
Engineer Antoine Chaffin announced he is leaving French AI company LightOn to join AI search engine Perplexity. He noted that while LightOn was an amazing place to work, he decided to move on to continue the goal of solving search in the open.
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