Perplexity has change into the newest AI firm to launch an in-depth analysis device, with a brand new characteristic introduced Friday.
Google unveiled an analogous characteristic for its Gemini AI platform in December. Then OpenAI launched its personal analysis agent earlier this month. All three corporations even have given the characteristic the identical title: Deep Analysis.
The objective is to supply extra in-depth solutions with actual citations for extra skilled use circumstances, in comparison with what you’d get from a client chatbot. In a weblog put up saying Deep Analysis, Perplexity wrote that the characteristic “excels at a variety of expert-level duties—from finance and advertising to product analysis.”
Perplexity Deep Analysis is presently out there on the net, and the corporate stated it should quickly be added to its Mac, iOS, and Android apps. To make use of it, you simply choose “Deep Analysis” from a drop-down menu if you submit your question in Perplexity, which is able to then create an in depth report that may be exported as a PDF or shared as a Perplexity Web page.
To create this report, Perplexity stated Deep Analysis “iteratively searches, reads paperwork, and causes about what to do subsequent, refining its analysis plan because it learns extra in regards to the topic areas,” supposedly “much like how a human would possibly analysis a brand new subject.”
The corporate additionally highlighted its efficiency on Humanity’s Final Examination, an AI benchmarking take a look at with expert-level questions in a wide range of tutorial fields. Perplexity stated its Deep Analysis device scored 21.1% on the take a look at, simply beating most different fashions, similar to Gemini Pondering (6.2%), Grok-2 (3.8%), and OpenAI’s GPT-4o (3.3%) — however not fairly matching OpenAI’s Deep Analysis (26.6%).
However whilst you presently want a $200-per-month Professional subscription to make use of OpenAI’s Deep Analysis (the corporate plans to increase to different subscription tiers), Perplexity’s Deep Analysis is accessible without cost — non-subscribers get an unspecified-but-limited variety of queries per day, whereas paying subscribers get limitless queries.
Perplexity’s Deep Analysis additionally appears to carry out extra shortly, finishing most duties in beneath three minutes in comparison with 5 to half-hour for OpenAI Deep Analysis.
Requested to check the assorted deep analysis merchandise, Perplexity supplied an outline of the completely different applied sciences, pricing fashions, and efficiency in several use circumstances and topic issues, with hyperlinks to articles about every characteristic). It summarized the variations as follows:
Perplexity AI excels in pace and accessibility for informal researchers
OpenAI dominates in analytical depth for enterprise purposes
Google integrates most seamlessly with present productiveness ecosystems
Whereas it’s too early to understand how these instruments will have an effect on on a regular basis {and professional} analysis as they change into extra widespread, The Economist lately highlighted shortcomings to OpenAI’s Deep Analysis that probably apply right here too: not simply limitations to its “creativity” in deciphering information and a bent to depend on sources which are “simply out there,” however a bigger threat that “outsourcing all of your analysis to a supergenius assistant” might “cut back the variety of alternatives to have your finest concepts.”
