Perplexity takes on ChatGPT and Gemini with new Deep Research AI that completes most tasks in under 3 minutes

Aravind Srinivas-led Perplexity AI has launched its own Deep Research tool, which it claims will help users save hours of time by performing in-depth research and analysis on their behalf, while taking less than 3 minutes for most tasks. Perplexity says that its Deep Research tool performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources and reasons what to do next, similar to how a human researcher might approach a topic. Perplexity Deep Research benchmark While Perplexity's Deep Research may fall short of ChatGPT in terms of accuracy, Srinivas claims in a post that the new AI tool is "an order of magnitude faster and cheaper" than the OpenAI offering. Notably, ChatGPT Deep Research only offers 100 queries to its Pro users, compared to Perplexity's 500 queries/day for paid users and limited queries for free users.