"Perplexity announced its new Enterprise Pro for Government offering on Monday, along with plans to better protect government users who are, according to the company, already making extensive use of the consumer version of Perplexity's AI search engine. "Perplexity is proud to already serve thousands of U.S. federal employees each day," the company said. That use appears to be via the publicly available version of Perplexity, as we couldn't locate any public contracts with the US government in contracting databases."
"Perplexity called out public AI tools for being unsafe for the government in its press release, but also admitted that it is one of the public tools being used for government workers without explicit permission from their agencies, or protections for sensitive data. "Today, most AI use within government is facilitated not through subscription-based products, but rather via publicly available web tools," the company said. "These public tools offer scant protection for agency data.""
Perplexity released Enterprise Pro for Government and plans to enforce enhanced security measures and offer a government-focused discount. The company reports thousands of U.S. federal employees already use its consumer service, but no public federal contracts or FedRAMP authorization appear in contracting databases. Perplexity warned that publicly available AI tools provide limited protections for agency data and acknowledged its public tools have been used by government workers without explicit agency permission or sensitive-data safeguards. The company noted interactions with public tools are typically reused for model training and other undisclosed purposes, and pledged to apply restrictions for government-related use.
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