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Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Hopefully the end user of these products know something about LLMs and why asking a question such as "List the college majors of all of the Fortune 100 CEOs" is not really suited well for them.

Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why this isn't a good use case for an LLM during a deep research workflow.

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Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully the end user of these products know something about LLMs and why asking a question such as "List the college majors of all of the Fortune 100 CEOs" is not really suited well for them.

For those that don't know, including myself, why would this question be particularly difficult for an LLM?

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Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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In about 2 weeks since OpenAI launched their $200/mo version of Deep Research, it has already been open sourced within 24 hours (Hugging Face) and now being offered for free by Perplexity. The pace of disruption is mind boggling and makes you wonder if OpenAI has any moats left.

My interest was piqued and I’ve been trying ChatGPT Pro for the last week. It’s interesting and the deep research did a pretty good job of outlining a strategy for a very niche multiplayer turn based game I’ve been playing. But this article reminded me to change next month’s subscription back to the premium $20 subscription.

Luckily work just gave me access to ChatGPT Enterprise and O1 Pro absolutely smoked a really hard problem I had at work yesterday, that would have taken me hours or maybe days of research and trawling through documentation to figure out without it explaining it to me.

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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That's the third product to use "Deep Research" in its name. The first was Gemini Deep Research: https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-resea... - December 11th 2024 Then ChatGPT Deep Research: https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/ - February 2nd 2025 Now Perplexity Deep Research: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-de... - February 14th 2025.

It failed my first test which concerned Upside magazine. All of these deep research versions have failed to immediately surface the most famous and controversial article from that magazine, "The Pussification of Silicon Valley." When hinted, Perplexity did a fantastic job of correcting itself, the others struggled terribly. I shouldn't have to hint though, as that requires domain knowledge that the asker of a query m…

I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was definitely faster, but the development of mobile phones post-iPhone went pretty quick as well.

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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For those that don't know, including myself, why would this question be particularly difficult for an LLM?

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Perplexity markets itself as a search tool. So even if LLMs are not search engines, Perplexity definitely is trying to be one.

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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For those that don't know, including myself, why would this question be particularly difficult for an LLM?

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You are a bit behind. All the "deep research" tools, and paid AI search tools in general, combine LLMs with search. When I do research on you.com it routinely searches a 100 sites. Even Google searches get Gemini'd now. I had to chuckle because your very link provides a demonstration.

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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That's the third product to use "Deep Research" in its name. The first was Gemini Deep Research: https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-deep-resea... - December 11th 2024 Then ChatGPT Deep Research: https://openai.com/index/introducing-deep-research/ - February 2nd 2025 Now Perplexity Deep Research: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-de... - February 14th 2025.

It failed my first test which concerned Upside magazine. All of these deep research versions have failed to immediately surface the most famous and controversial article from that magazine, "The Pussification of Silicon Valley." When hinted, Perplexity did a fantastic job of correcting itself, the others struggled terribly. I shouldn't have to hint though, as that requires domain knowledge that the asker of a query m…

> pussification of silicon valley upside magazine

Google nor bing can find this

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully the end user of these products know something about LLMs and why asking a question such as "List the college majors of all of the Fortune 100 CEOs" is not really suited well for them.

Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why this isn't a good use case for an LLM during a deep research workflow.

LLMs ought to be able to gracefully handle it, but the OP comment
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