Perplexity launches AI agents for work

https://www.perplexity.ai/en-GB/hub/blog/teammates-are-agents-for-complex-ongoing-work

18•cybermango•1h ago

Comments

kingjimmy•37m ago

Is perplexity still relevant?

ivanmontillam•32m ago

Hardly, but I applaud the effort they do to remain in existence.

They might get relegated to niche use cases, or pivot like Midjourney. I'm glad they exist, even for the sake of fighting against the duopoly that's just forming with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Perplexity can fight Gemini for that 3rd spot. Gemini is kind of fumbling it, so they have a real fighting chance, imho.

abirch•30m ago

Why is Gemini fumbling it? I use it for most of my personal projects and it's great for those.

alterom•26m ago

I get better quality output from Perplexity than Gemini.

That said, I stick to Claude in the terminal for 99% of my LLM usage.

abirch•23m ago

Is this a gemini vs Antigravity-cli thing? I use agy as my cli at home and it's as good as Opus/Sonnet for me -- but I haven't tried very taxing tasks. I use Aragon/Flash. I'm not modifying large code bases, more like vibe coding throwaway projects at home.

warkaree•24m ago

I use Gemini it's bundled with my phone contract. Its privacy is nightmare there is no opt out.

0c3ca83•14m ago

Yeah, but all of the LLMs are a privacy nightmare, as is any Google product.

petcat•13m ago

From and investor and "market" perspective, he only AI that matters is the one built into your phone, TV, car, and all your smarthome appliances. Google and Apple completely own this space.

If anything Anthropic and Open AI are at a severe disadvantage. Open AI at least provides backend model services with Siri

okdood64•20m ago

The CEO just needs to do more CNBC appearances and they're good.

borg16•12m ago

I do not understand how you can conclude that they both are even competitors - along any dimension

Perplexity has now become a speciality tool used for a few use cases primarily via third party models (unsure if they are still continuing to develop their own mdoels and where they rank)

Google on the other hand is still actively trying to develop SOTA models (or at least 3rd best) and also is widely used amongst cost sensitive projects.

I see no comparison between them worth putting them alongside each other.

tinyhouse•10m ago

They have users and revenue in the hundreds of millions so yes. No affiliation. I don't use their service either.

I also think that this is going to be very useful and many startups are entering this space of agent teammates with persistent memory.

zk108•13m ago

what is it that these lot do again?

cmiles8•10m ago

I forgot Perplexity even still existed. They went from all the rage to nobody talks about them anymore.

Honest question… why IP does Perplexity have that gives them any moat whatsoever left in this increasingly commoditized market?

48585858•4m ago

Its just jeetslop, it just needs to exist long enough to be acquired by some boomer company

LewisVerstappen•2m ago

@dang - can we ban racist fuckwads from HN?

5555watch•8m ago

It's crazy how they were THE AI to go to for researchers and anti-hallucination stuff. And how quickly they became irrelevant.

But Sam Altman said back in the GPT-3.5 days that exactly this will happen to all GPT wrapper startups. [0]

[0]: https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1779930498623742187

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