The AI search engine Perplexity has been getting a lot of buzz recently as an alternative to ChatGPT. Unlike ChatGPT, Perplexity provides citations by default for the information it delivers. That single feature has become crucial in generative AI, given the ongoing hallucination issue with this technology. Accordingly, Perplexity has become a surprisingly strong player in a market otherwise dominated by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta.
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