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 identical characteristic for its Gemini AI platform in December. Then OpenAI launched its personal analysis agent earlier this month. All three firms even have given the characteristic the identical title: Deep Analysis.
The objective is to offer 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 submit asserting Deep Analysis, Perplexity wrote that the characteristic “excels at a variety of expert-level duties—from finance and advertising and marketing to product analysis.”
Perplexity Deep Analysis is at present accessible on the internet, and the corporate mentioned it’ll 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 while you submit your question in Perplexity, which can 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 mentioned 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 “just like how a human may analysis a brand new matter.”
The corporate additionally highlighted its efficiency on Humanity’s Final Examination, an AI benchmarking check with expert-level questions in quite a lot of tutorial fields. Perplexity mentioned its Deep Analysis device scored 21.1% on the check, simply beating most different fashions, comparable 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 at present 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 offered 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 underneath three minutes in comparison with 5 to half-hour for OpenAI Deep Analysis.
Requested to check the varied deep analysis merchandise, Perplexity supplied an outline of the totally 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 velocity 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 know the way these instruments will have an effect on on a regular basis {and professional} analysis as they change into extra fashionable, The Economist not too long ago highlighted shortcomings to OpenAI’s Deep Analysis that seemingly apply right here too: not simply limitations to its “creativity” in deciphering information and an inclination to depend on sources which can be “simply accessible,” however a bigger danger that “outsourcing all of your analysis to a supergenius assistant” might “scale back the variety of alternatives to have your greatest concepts.”
