More than an OpenAI Wrapper: Perplexity Pivots to Open Source. I’m increasingly impressed with Perplexity.ai—I’m using it on a daily basis now. It’s by far the best implementation I’ve seen of LLM-assisted search—beating Microsoft Bing and Google Bard at their own game.
A year ago it was implemented as a GPT 3.5 powered wrapper around Microsoft Bing. To my surprise they’ve now evolved way beyond that: Perplexity has their own search index now and is running their own crawlers, and they’re using variants of Mistral 7B and Llama 70B as their models rather than continuing to depend on OpenAI.
Recent articles
- Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI - 19th November 2024
- Project: Civic Band - scraping and searching PDF meeting minutes from hundreds of municipalities - 16th November 2024
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac - 12th November 2024