Explained: Why Perplexity is an AI tool to watch out for

As the artificial intelligence space is expanding at breakneck speed, competition for long-standing dominance of various platforms is also rising. Perplexity AI, which is touted as a challenger for Google in the web search and ChatGPT in the AI chatbot space, recently received a new funding deal valued at $1 billion from Amazon's Jeff Bezos. In January this year, Perplexity reached 10 million monthly active users and served over half a billion queries in 2023, its official website reported—making it an AI platform that can no longer be ignored. If you can directly answer somebody’s question, nobody needs those 10 blue links.” To generate the answers, Perplexity AI uses several large language models from OpenAI to Meta's open-source model Llama. According to Perplexity AI’s website, GPT-4, from OpenAI is good for analytical tasks, while Claude 2 is better for writing as it has a longer context limit.