Get the latest tech news

What is Perplexity AI? A guide to the search engine compared to ChatGPT

Discover Perplexity AI, a 'Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity,' with advanced search capabilities.

Its investors include prominent figures and firms such as Bezos, Nvidia, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Susan Wojcicki, Jeff Dean, Yann LeCun, Andrej Karpathy, Nat Friedman, and Garry Tan. The search engine pulled in live resultsThe platform, which the company describes as continuously updating, also remembers the context of each interaction, storing them as “Threads.” This means any previously provided information is considered in subsequent queries. One of the extensions adds Perplexity as your default search engine while the other integrates its functionalities into any web page, so users can summarize content or answer queries directly from the site you’re viewing.

Get the Android app