Perplexity

“In the AI context, I'm a fan of perplexity, which is an AI powered research assistant. It does work with third party models. But it also offers a lot of seemingly small features that add up to a compelling user experience. Lower latency, providing sources, sug…”

“I think with perplexity getting share from Google right now.”

“Whenever the state-of-the-art model comes out, he incorporates that into Perplexity on the day of, if not earlier.”

“It's been in the news that perplexity is already talking to advertisers. They have a high income, highly educated user base that should be attractive to these advertisers.”

“The average query on perplexity is 10 to 11 words. The average search on Google is two to three keywords.”

“If you think about the Google experience as it is today, it's just a long list of links. And the first few are sponsored. They're ads. And I, as a user, when I make a query on Google, I then need to make the decision. I have to sift through the information on …”

“Perplexity, queries are growing 25 to 30% month over month.”

“For the average query on ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google, they're pretty good. You don't need a vertical specific application, but for deep domain research, I can imagine a world in which standalone apps thrive.”

“I find for navigation queries, Google is still better.”

“A bunch of the perplexity team was there. Dennis, Dennis was on the feed team with me. Johnny Ho Jerry Ma. And then Alexander, the scale, you know, like was there. He was there between high school and college.”

“They do feel like the startup that has the biggest breadth of ambition, you know, alongside the labs and sort of big tech, like it's very, very impressive just the number of things they've shipped this year.”

“If you look at the data, like the spike at launch and the sustained traffic for Comet was actually much higher than for ChatGBT's own browser launch, Atlas, which is kind of crazy given how much more distribution ChatGBT has than Perplexity.”

“If you look at kind of the highest spike for Comet and Atlas in terms of visits to the download page, Comet is five times ahead of Atlas”