Building Perplexity AI: The World's First Conversational Answer Engine

🔍Perplexity AI combines a traditional search index with reasoning capabilities of large language models to provide concise answers with supporting citations and links.

📚The goal is to make answer engines the primary source of information, eliminating the need for traditional search engines.

📈Perplexity AI has seen success, with growing traffic and users relying on the platform.

💡Long-term defensibility comes from building a strong user base and network effects, rather than relying solely on the underlying models or APIs.

💻Perplexity AI plans to build its own models and indexes to enhance its product and infrastructure in the future.

What is Perplexity AI?

—Perplexity AI is a conversational answer engine that combines traditional search indexes with large language models to provide factual answers to user queries.

How does Perplexity AI differ from search engines?

—Perplexity AI focuses on providing concise answers with supporting citations and links, while traditional search engines primarily provide links to relevant sources.

How does Perplexity AI ensure the accuracy of its answers?

—Perplexity AI uses large language models and the expertise of its team to verify the accuracy of answers and include supporting citations for each piece of information.

How has Perplexity AI performed since its launch?

—Perplexity AI has experienced growing traffic and user engagement, with many people using it as their go-to source for information.

Are there plans to expand Perplexity AI's capabilities?

—Yes, Perplexity AI plans to build its own models and indexes to further enhance its product and infrastructure in the future.

00:00Perplexity AI is a conversational answer engine that combines traditional search indexes with large language models.

03:46Perplexity AI aims to make answer engines the primary source of information, eliminating the need for traditional search engines.

05:59Perplexity AI has seen success since its launch, with growing traffic and users relying on the platform for answers.

11:10Building on top of OpenAI's models, Perplexity AI plans to enhance its infrastructure by developing its own models and indexes.