Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?
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#2As a purely anecdotal datapoint, Perplexity was my first stop search engine for a while. It stopped being my first stop when they starting prompting me constantly to try their browser. Getting in the way of me being able to immediately ask my question drove over to gemini instead. It turned out that Gemini was good enough now so I didn't go back.
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#3It’s hard to bet against the foundation models winning consumer use cases where you can reimagine the whole product as a single tool or small number that can be dynamically plugged in to the underlying model and doesn’t require access to proprietary data/custom context.
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#4Most AI written article that was ever AIed. It’s not just a laziness — it’s disrespect towards the reader.
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#5Perplexity is one small iteration away from just a classic AI wrapper.
It was amazing early on in demonstrating what search could be, but frankly there’s not much reason for it to exist much longer.
The big players can, and are, just replicating its core functionality. The moat is gone.
I’d have to agree that they’re probably near the top of the list of companies about to get wiped out by a bubble deflation. Possible they get acquired by some sucker looking to establish AI creds but the market for that has probably passed as Wall Street is becoming super skeptical of all things AI at the moment.
Re: Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?
#6As a purely anecdotal datapoint, Perplexity was my first stop search engine for a while. It stopped being my first stop when they starting prompting me constantly to try their browser. Getting in the way of me being able to immediately ask my question drove over to gemini instead. It turned out that Gemini was good enough now so I didn't go back.
Their mobile app still seems to be usable so far.
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#7I’ve always been baffled by how far they were able to get being a straight wrapper. They’re doing incredible tbh.
There are so many wrappers. I feel like companies that are propped up by wrappers will always be competing against basic features being released by . Wrappers also just feel low effort.
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#8> Perplexity is increasingly looking like what Silicon Valley dreads most a wrapper.
That is only uneducated people. The ‘wrapper’ is the product people pay for. The ‘wrapper’ gets all the revenue.
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#10Most AI written article that was ever AIed. It’s not just a laziness — it’s disrespect towards the reader.
Medium used to be a decent platform full of high quality articles. Then the quality started to drop. These days, it's full of AI slops, the ones with lower quality.
This is an article I stumbled upon recently: https://medium.com/@saraswatp/understanding-scaled-dot-produ...
Apparently the author did not bother to do basic proofreading of the article even once before posting it.
Yet it showed up at the top of my Google search results. I guess that's the state of today's Internet in a nutshell.