Perplexity Deep Research

Re:Perplexity Deep Research by bsaul on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:17AM (#43066643)

can someone explain what perplexity value is ? They seem like a thin wrapper on top of big AI names, and yet i find them often mentioned as equivalent to the likes of opena ai / anthropic / etc, which build foundational models.

It's very confusing.

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Re:Perplexity Deep Research by Havoc on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:44AM (#43066784)

Their main claim to fame was blending LLM+search well early on. Everyone has caught up on that one though. The other benefit is access to variety of models - OAI, Anthropic etc. i.e. you can select the LLM for each LLM+search you do.

Lately they've been making a string of moves thought that smell of desperation though.

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Re:Perplexity Deep Research by RobinL on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:20AM (#43066662)

They were doing web search before open ai/anthropic, so they historically had a (pretty decent) unique selling point.

Once chat gpt added web browsing, I largely stopped using perplexity

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Re:Perplexity Deep Research by rr808 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:29AM (#43067808)

They are a little bit different because it operates more like a search tool. Its the first real company that is a good replacement for Google.

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Re:Perplexity Deep Research by throwaway314155 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:12PM (#43071759)

What about ChatGPT's search functionality? Built straight in to the product. Works with GPT-4o.

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Re:Perplexity Deep Research by zeta_ on Monday February 17, 2025 @05:04AM (#43077141)

They existed before OpenAI released that and they allow the use of other models like Claud or DeepSeek for example

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