Perplexity AI is a search engine and chatbot hybrid that leverages advanced AI models to offer quick, insightful responses to user queries. It stands out as an "answer engine," designed to facilitate research by summarizing information from multiple sources. Perplexity allows users to perform tasks ranging from casual inquiries to in-depth research, with intuitive features such as the ability to create custom pages based on queries.
A key advantage of Perplexity is its simplicity, making it accessible even to beginners. However, while it aggregates data from various sources, its summarization methods have faced scrutiny for potentially bypassing content protections, like the robots.txt protocol, leading to debates about its data-gathering ethics.
Despite these concerns, Perplexity's user base has grown rapidly, and it has attracted significant funding, showing promise in the competitive AI-driven search engine space(Tool Finder)(Wikipedia)(One Day Advisor).