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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 li
by bsaul 2y ago
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.
- RobinL 2y agoThey 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
- Havoc 2y agoTheir 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.
- rr808 2y agoThey 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.
- throwaway314155 2y agoWhat about ChatGPT's search functionality? Built straight in to the product. Works with GPT-4o.
- zeta_ 2y agoThey existed before OpenAI released that and they allow the use of other models like Claud or DeepSeek for example