Kantrowitz explicitly acknowledged becoming less bullish on Perplexity, shifting from seeing it as a curiosity-satisfying tool to expecting competitors to absorb its functionality.
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“I think that, um, search is going to be, continue to be a way that we use web navigation and AI search like perplexity will be more to satisfy curiosity. Um, and, and engage with different topics.”
“I'm much less bullish on perplexity than I was. Uh, I just think that like their functionality is just going to be swallowed up by the Geminis and the chat GPTs of the world.”