Perplexity's billion-dollar challenge

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Zain Kahn
April 09, 2026

Welcome back, Superhuman. Are you sitting on a massive business idea but don’t have the coding skills to build it? This might be your sign to seize the moment: Perplexity is awarding $1M in funding to anyone who uses its Computer agent to build a startup with unicorn potential.

Today: Perplexity’s billion-dollar challenge, how to dictate anywhere on your Android device with Wispr Flow, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

Click to learn about Perplexity’s billion-dollar competition. Source: Perplexity.

1. Meta drops new major AI model, Muse Spark: Muse Spark is the debut release from Alexandr Wang and Meta Superintelligence Labs. Wang claims Meta has rebuilt its AI stack from scratch to ship it, including new infrastructure, architecture, and data pipelines. The model is competitive with leading models across several benchmarks.

2. Perplexity announces a business competition with $1M in funding on the line: The Billion Dollar Build is an 8-week challenge to see who can build a real company with a realistic path to a $1B valuation using Perplexity Computer. The reward: $1M in seed investment and $1M in Computer credits, split among up to 3 winners. To enter, just register by April 14th and start building. Perplexity will select 10 finalists to present live on video.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Be extra cautious when getting information from AI Overviews

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AI accuracy. A recent NYT report found that Google’s AI Overviews are accurate 90% of the time, a stat that’s reassuring at first — until you do the math. At 5 trillion searches a year, that 10% miss rate means tens of millions of overviews are wrong every hour. But the bigger problem? Every overview looks confident and official.

Why are overviews inaccurate? The study revealed three reasons why AI overviews stumble: relying on info from Facebook and Reddit (the #2 and #4 most used sources), linking to websites that don’t back up the claim, or generating false summaries of factual information.

Chatbots can also be gamed. Scammers and savvy marketers can also deliberately mislead chatbots hunting for information. Journalist Thomas Germain proved the point by publishing a blog post called The Best Tech Journalists at Eating Hot Dogs, ranking himself #1, and watching AI serve it up as fact.

Always verify. AI chatbots are still genuinely useful search assistants. They’re right most of the time, can research faster than any human, and will likely find critical insights you’d otherwise miss. Let AI handle the grunt work — just verify its claims before you act on them.

  • Download and Install Wispr Flow

  • Once done, tap the floating bubble to dictate anywhere on your device (Flow sits on top of every app: WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail, ChatGPT, your browser)

  • Talk the way you would to a friend. Include "um"s, go on tangents, change your mind mid-sentence.

  • Flow strips the filler, fixes the grammar, and formats everything. You get clean, polished text ready to send.

  • You can use it to dictate long replies, speak detailed prompts and dictate code comments etc.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

Meme of the day

📈 AI Trades: The Claudefolio just made its first major trade — swapping a defense company to load up on an undervalued tech stock.

🖼️ Claude the Artist: Linking Pixa to Claude transforms it into an insane graphic designer that can pump out content 24/7 (1.2M views).

📊 Growth Marketing: Anthropic's growth marketer revealed 4 AI workflows he uses — that most people don’t even know about.

👀 Cheap AI: Codex is resetting weekly usage limits every time it gets a million new users, according to Sam Altman himself (1.4M views).

📝 Viral Chart: Perplexity launched AI agents last month and its revenue is already going parabolic.

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PROMPT STATION

Pre Meeting Brief

Grok Prompt: I have an upcoming meeting with [COMPANY NAME] and need a concise, high-signal pre-meeting brief. Provide a clear overview of what the company does, along with the most important developments from the past 30 days (news, announcements, funding, partnerships, or product updates). Include any notable recent hires or leadership changes, relevant sentiment or discussions from platforms like X, and a breakdown of their current strategic priorities and likely business challenges. Also identify their key competitors and positioning within the market. Structure the brief for quick scanning, keep it under 500 words, and include citations for all key points.

Vehicle Infographics

Source: TechieSA

NanoBanana Prompt: Premium technical infographic of [VEHICLE]. Use the reference image only to understand the shape and structure of the object, without copying the same photo, angle, composition, or background. Reinterpret the subject in a new professional and realistic photograph, clean and well-lit, with a suitable and more aesthetic background. Keep the object as a real photo, not an illustration. Add a technical blueprint-style overlay with white lines, arrows, dimensions, labels, and small diagrams of parts, materials, measurements, and functionality. Clear, elegant, and informative composition. Include a sketch box in the upper left corner with the title “VEHICLE”. 4:5 Dimension.

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