Perplexity

includes Perplexity API

9 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2024 by Mark Huang · said 63 times in 29 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Shawn Wang (16), Kevin Ben-Smith (8), Robert McCloy (3), Jaya Gupta (2), Emily Glassberg Sands (2), Andy Konwinski (2), Alessio Fanelli (2), William Beauchamp (1)

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May 31, 2024
Insight
Huang: Correct RoPE theta scaling causes immediate early perplexity drops
“Specifically when the one trick you should pay attention to is you know that your context length and theta scaling is working right if the early steps in the perplexity go straight down. So like when it wasn't correct, it would oscillate a lot in the beginning…”
Mark Huang May 31, 2024 ▶ 1:06:03 How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
Aug 22, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Cosine's Genie uses the Perplexity API and URL reading tools
“The genie has both of those tools available to it as well. So yeah, yeah. So we have a tool where you can like put in URLs and it will just read the URLs and you can, it also uses perplexities API under the hood as well to be able to actually ask questions if …”
Alistair Pullen Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 23:02 Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bryk: Perplexity and ChatGPT Search rely on legacy Google and Bing APIs
“So these systems, there are a few of them now they basically rely on like traditional search engines like Google or Bing, and then they combine them with like LLMs at the end to, you know, output some power graphics answering your question. So they, Like, Sear…”
Will Bryk Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 21:16 Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
Mar 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Ben-Smith: Perplexity web search API costs roughly $5 per 1,000 queries
“If you use the web search, the price is like five dollars per a thousand queries.”
Kevin Ben-Smith Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 34:19 Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Shah: Investor in OpenAI, Perplexity, LangGraph, CrewAI, and Limitless
“Investor in OpenAI, perplexity, lane graph, crew AI, limitless, a bunch of them.”
Dharmesh Shah Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 1:19:35 The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
Jul 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Davis: Claude Deep Research Outperforms OpenAI, Perplexity, and Gemini
“And time and time again, over the last couple of weeks, I found that Claude has by far outperformed the others. And I guess the definition of good for me right now is not just length, but also the number of sources and diversity of response.”
Dylan Davis Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:57 ⚡️Anthropic vs Cognition on Multi-Agents: A Breakdown with Dylan Davis
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
McCloy: Perplexity is the second-largest AI-native search platform after ChatGPT
“Perplexity is pretty big. So I would actually say that like perplexity is the second biggest AI native search platform after ChatVT.”
Robert McCloy Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 52:32 AI is Eating Search
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Sands: Perplexity's travel search and booking agent is powered by Stripe
“A year ago, Perplexity launched a travel search and booking agent. Did you guys see this? Yep. That is also powered by Stripe.”
Emily Glassberg Sands Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 43:16 The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jeff Dean and Databricks founders invested in Konwinski's venture fund
“So the venture funding, there's 50 professors and PhDs, the top names like Jeff Dean and the top faculty at Berkeley and Stanford and my co-founders of Databricks and Perplexity who've invested in the fund.”
Andy Konwinski Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 2:43 [State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute
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