I find these numbers somewhat disappointing. The total enrollment across all these schools is ~900,000. Generally, the percentage of students interested in Perplexity is small. AS, WGU, and Liberty are all +100k enrollment each (145, 176, 110 respectively). They lead the board on numbers -- but not percentages. Almost half of the total students represented are at 3 schools, which I'm sure are fine schools, but not the highest ranked. The remaining schools are ivies and near-ivies, most of which with enrollment < 50k, and almost all private. Many of those are technology-focused. And their relative use of Perplexity, while still small, is much higher than that at the large public schools mentioned. So it seems to me, taking as a premise that Perplexity is a major factor in "the AI wave", that access to prime AI is already being restricted to the already privileged who, in a few years, will influence society in significant ways, possessing as they do the "golden key" to success that top schools bestow. Meanwhile, a small percentage of "other students" are benefiting from the AI wave, which (perhaps) would help them get a leg up. I encourage Perplexity to focus on providing free access to (all) public schools, and not to ivies.
Pretty cool to see more than 50K signups to Perplexity from top schools. Each campus that gets more than 500 signups gets to secure 1 year of Perplexity Pro for free for the whole campus. 9 hours remain for the ones yet to hit 500 sign ups. https://lnkd.in/gejtpNyd
