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Yara Abboud's avatar

Yes I use it a lot for my B2B article search. I also use felo.ai for searching info because it's more accurate. With perplexity I end up checking the sources the answer links to just to see if they re relevant, but with felo. AI it's already accurate.

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Jungle Pyramid Washer's avatar

I just use chat GPT as my search engine

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Anthony's avatar

Would love to get your thoughts but the way ChatGPT frames their answers is more structured and sometimes more readable than Perplexity’s. The answer is more human-like and conversational as well.

For Perplexity, I have found some of their responses either hard to follow or repetitive in nature.

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Curt Sassak's avatar

@Michael Spencer oh, def. keeping this article, thank you

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Shushan Ghandilyan's avatar

Great article! I mainly use ChatGPT but this article made me to explore Preplexity more deeply.

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John Van Gundy's avatar

The irony is Perplexity pretended to be Google in an attempt to scrape/steal data from Cloudflare’s clients’ websites. This isn’t the first time Perplexity has been exposed for unethical behavior.

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The Wedge's avatar

Nice piece! Perplexity is certainly a good tool but it offers a different service than Google. It will provide sources and explanations for something I ask but it will not necessarily be better for image search or finding places.

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John Michael Thomas's avatar

Perplexity is great. But I worry it may not have a future.

I use Claude and ChatGPT (though mostly Claude) to do the same kind of research Perplexity does. It takes just a little more work on my part to guide the chatbot to give me the summary and insights I want, but it means I can both customize those summaries, and do more with it all easily once the research is done.

For example, I often take the results and put them into something more permanent (like a research report). That way I can download that research report, and then upload it later to use it in a new conversation without having to perform all the research again. I also often use the research to create suggested outlines and titles for other content (blogs, social media posts, etc.), and having already done the research in a chatbot means I don't have to transfer anything at all - not just the summary of the research but all the details of the sources are already loaded into the conversation.

So, while I think Perplexity is great, I don't actually see the advantage it has over using a chatbot for the same thing - except for the small bump in ease of use you'll get if you know in advance that you won't be needing the details of that research later. Because with just a little prompting in major chatbots, you can get the same results. And the effort it will take the major chatbots to create features that duplicate Perplexity's results is more incremental than revolutionary.

This all makes me wonder if Perplexity and its ilk have a real future. I expect all of the major chatbots to continually add features that eat into not just the market share, but also the reason for existence, of dedicated research tools like Perplexity.

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Michael Spencer's avatar

Thank you, great comment with added context.

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Campbell Robertson's avatar

Good article. Need to add Perplexity Max features as well !

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Michael Spencer's avatar

@Alex McFarland hopefully the author will write an updated version of this.

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Nick Woodford's avatar

Thanks for sharing! I'd love to know your view on how you think Perplexity compares to Google's AI Mode, which just launched here in the UK. To me they are both pretty similar services.

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Michael Spencer's avatar

@Alex McFarland

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ATC (Absolute Total Compound)'s avatar

In summary, Perplexity is just an another form of search engine to present the contents in compiled form form with some opinion.

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Chatbot = Compilation Search Engine.

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ATC (Absolute Total Compound)'s avatar

can perplexity calculate yourself ?

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Perplexity AI itself does not directly calculate intrinsic stock values on its own like a dedicated financial modeling tool would. However, Perplexity AI offers powerful AI-powered stock research capabilities that include summarizing real-time financial data, valuation metrics, earnings call transcripts, and investment theses by analyzing credible financial information from multiple sources.

In practice, Perplexity Finance (a specialized tool from Perplexity AI) helps investors quickly gather and understand stock valuation data and summaries, but it relies on existing financial data and models rather than directly performing intrinsic value calculations like a discounted cash flow (DCF) model for you.

So, while Perplexity can assist in stock research and provide valuation insights sourced from financial data, the explicit calculation of intrinsic value based on your own assumptions or models would still require separate financial tools or manual modeling.

In summary: Perplexity AI supports stock research and valuation analysis but does not autonomously calculate intrinsic stock value from scratch by itself—it helps you interpret and analyze data efficiently.

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Marqv's avatar

Hi! Here is the new chapter of my satire on modern society. I would love for you to go and read it and share your perspective if that will be possible. Thank you!

https://canfictionhelpusthrive.substack.com/p/a-very-unexpected-interview

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Joel Salinas's avatar

I was hoping you did a perplexity deep dive, Alex! Thanks

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10plus Fund's avatar

I use Perplexity daily, no ads or sponsored results

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