Perplexity, AI Ready to Replace Google as a Search Engine, Are You One of the Users?
- In the rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence and search technology, Perplexity AI is emerging as a powerful new player, offering a blend of conversational AI and web search capabilities that are recognized for their accuracy.
Artificial intelligence (AI) Perplexity, has only been exploring the world of technology for a year but has already succeeded in attracting the attention of many parties, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, CEO of Shopify, and Mark Zuckerberg, who is also said to be one of Perplexity's loyal users.
Reporting from The Verge Monday (18/3), Perplexity should be taken into account. Investor Jeff Bezos, who was also an early investor in Google, invested in the startup.
Led by ambitious young CEO Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity has raised more than $74 million in funding and was last valued at more than $520 million.
Perplexity AI is a search engine created to help humans search for more in-depth and accurate information and aspires to compete with Google.
Although they are relatively new aspirations, Perplexity AI is clearly gaining traction and attracting new users quickly. Let's dive in and see what Perplexity is like.
What is Perplexity AI?
It is an AI chat-based conversational search engine that can help you find information on various topics quickly.
This AI is supported by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 capabilities combined with a large language model, it uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning to provide precise and accurate answers to questions.
Unlike regular search engines, Perplexity has an interactive chatbot like interface. This means that users can ask questions in natural language. The AI will even respond in natural language to your answers.
So instead of perusing links to find the answer you're looking for, you can get a direct answer to your question.
Perplexity is even superior because this AI even cites sites and sources from all over the web it crawls to provide answers that are more accurate and clearly sourced.
You can also ask follow-up questions on any topic for a deeper dive, and Perplexity will respond, keeping previous responses in context.
Perplexity also has access to the Internet. He uses a Bing-based retrieval system to verify answers.
Differences between Perplexity and Other Search Engines
While this AI is a new approach to search engines, Perplexity is different from other AI tools out there, especially ChatGPT, Bing AI, and Google Bard. The main difference lies in the accuracy claims.
The founders of Perplexity AI claim that their tool is more accurate than others, and user reviews seem to support this statement.
Of course, Perplexity AI is an AI-based tool that may still be susceptible to ‘hallucinations’ like other tools out there. But the answers he gives are always supported by sources and quotes, which you can easily click on to verify the answers he gives.
Perplexity AI is based on GPT-3.5, differentiating itself from ChatGPT, which uses the newer GPT-4. Specifically, Perplexity AI claims to integrate conversational AI with web search, providing a blend of AI capabilities and search engine precision.
Company future plans
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, emphasized the startup's strength in concentrating and optimizing multiple high-performance AI models.
Currently the startup employs 38 people, the company aims to increase its team size to around 60 by the end of the startup year in concentrating and optimizing various high-performance AI models.
Apart from the sophistication of AI, Perplexity is also the center of attention because of the confident attitude of the CEO who said that he relies on investor funds to advance and support Perplexity's vision as the next generation and become a major player in the world of technology.