Perplexity has turn out to be the newest AI firm to launch an in-depth analysis instrument, with a brand new function introduced Friday.
Google unveiled an identical function for its Gemini AI platform in December. Then OpenAI launched its personal analysis agent earlier this month. All three firms even have given the function the identical title: Deep Analysis.
The purpose is to supply extra in-depth solutions with actual citations for extra skilled use circumstances, in comparison with what you’d get from a shopper chatbot. In a weblog submit saying Deep Analysis, Perplexity wrote that the function “excels at a variety of expert-level duties—from finance and advertising to product analysis.”
Perplexity Deep Analysis is at present obtainable on the internet, and the corporate mentioned it should 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 is able to 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 subject.”
The corporate additionally highlighted its efficiency on Humanity’s Final Examination, an AI benchmarking take a look at with expert-level questions in quite a lot of tutorial fields. Perplexity mentioned its Deep Analysis instrument scored 21.1% on the take a look at, simply beating most different fashions, corresponding 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 develop to different subscription tiers), Perplexity’s Deep Analysis is on the market without spending a dime — 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 beneath three minutes in comparison with 5 to half-hour for OpenAI Deep Analysis.
Requested to match 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 function). It summarized the variations as follows:
- Perplexity AI excels in pace and accessibility for informal researchers
- OpenAI dominates in analytical depth for enterprise functions
- Google integrates most seamlessly with current 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 turn out to be extra well-liked, The Economist lately highlighted shortcomings to OpenAI’s Deep Analysis that possible apply right here too: not simply limitations to its “creativity” in deciphering knowledge and a bent to depend on sources which might be “simply obtainable,” however a bigger danger that “outsourcing all of your analysis to a supergenius assistant” may “cut back the variety of alternatives to have your greatest concepts.”
