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Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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> pussification of silicon valley upside magazine Google nor bing can find this

https://www.google.com/search?q=pussification+of+silicon+val...

I see a reference to the comment, a guiardian article about the article but not the article itself.

Perhaps it’s softnuked in the eu or something?

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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This is bizarre, wasn't Google the one who claimed the name and did it first?

Gemini was also "use us through this weird interface and also you can't if you're in the EU"; that + being far behind OpenAI and Anthropic for the past year means, they failed to reach notoriety, partly because of their own choices.

Honestly I don‘t get why everybody is saying Gemini is far behind. Like for me Gemini Flash Thinking Experimental performs far far better then o3 mini

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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This is great. I haven't tried OpenAI or Google's Deep Research, so maybe I'm not seeing the relative crapness that others in the comments are seeing.

But for the query "what made the Amiga 500 sound chip special" it wrote a fantastic and detailed article: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-made-the-amiga-500-sou...

For me personally it was a great read and I learnt a few things I didn't know before about it.

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.

Just a side note: The Wikipedia page for "Deep Research" only mentions OpenAI – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Research

I think somebody has read your comment and fixed it...

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Gemini was also "use us through this weird interface and also you can't if you're in the EU"; that + being far behind OpenAI and Anthropic for the past year means, they failed to reach notoriety, partly because of their own choices.

Honestly I don‘t get why everybody is saying Gemini is far behind. Like for me Gemini Flash Thinking Experimental performs far far better then o3 mini

Seconding this. I get really great results from Flash 2.0 and even Pro 1.5 for some things compared to OpenAI models.

And their 2.0 Thinking model is great for other things. When my task matters, I default to Gemini.

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Every week we get a new AI that according to the AI-goodness-benchmarks is 20% better than the old AI, yet the utility of these latest SOTA models is only marginally higher than the first ChatGPT version released to the public a few years back. These things have the reasoning skills of a toddler, yet we keep fine-tuning their writing style to be more and more authoritative - this one is only missing the font and colo…

Just yesterday I did my first Deep Research with OpenAI on a topic I know well. I have to say I am really underwhelmed. It sounds all authoritative and the structure is good. It all sounds and feels substantial on the surface but the content is really poor. Now people will blame me and say: you have to get the prompt right! Maybe. But then at the very least put a disclaimer on your highly professional sounding dossie…

This sounds like a good thing! Sounds like “it’s professional sounding” is becoming less effective as a means of persuasion, which means we’ll have much less fallacious logic floating around and will ultimately get back to our human roots:

Prove it or fight me

Re: Perplexity Deep Research

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Gemini was also "use us through this weird interface and also you can't if you're in the EU"; that + being far behind OpenAI and Anthropic for the past year means, they failed to reach notoriety, partly because of their own choices.

Honestly I don‘t get why everybody is saying Gemini is far behind. Like for me Gemini Flash Thinking Experimental performs far far better then o3 mini

There's a lot of mental inertia combined with an extremely fast moving market. Google was behind in the AI race in 2023 and a good chunk of 2024. But they largely caught up with Gemini 1.5, especially the 002 release version. Now with Gemini 2 they are every bit as much of a frontier model player as OpenAI and Anthropic, and even ahead of them in a few areas. 2025 will be an interesting year for AI.

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.

Does perplexity offer anything for code "copilots" for free?

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.

Exactly. There's not much to differentiate these models (to a typical user). Like cloud service providers, this will be a race to the bottom.
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