New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has congratulated Zoho Corporation on the rapid success of its homegrown messaging app Arattai, which has seen daily sign-ups soar from 3,000 to 350,000 within just three days, positioning it as a strong Indian contender to WhatsApp.

The app's daily sign-ups have soared from 3,000 to 350,000 within only three days, a staggering 100-fold increase. Zoho's Chief Scientist and co-founder, Sridhar Vembu, disclosed that teams are working round the clock to scale infrastructure and resolve technical issues triggered by the sudden spike. "We are adding infrastructure on an emergency basis for another potential 100x peak surge. That is how exponentials work," he wrote on X, noting that the...