Been using it since early April 2023. Incredibly fast, and finding it indispensable for finding and summarizing answers (with sources) to questions requiring "current" knowledge. The sources provide not only some credibility, but offer jumping off points for further drilldowns. I still pay for ChatGPT Plus, as the uses cases are quite different: ChatGPT is better at answering more general knowledge-based questions; it is extensively knowledgeable with training data through 2021, and possesses incredible reasoning abilities. Perplexity is more of a "search engine on steroids" (or an "answer engine" as they put it), so more adept at getting current, up-to-date information with top sources it retrieves from the web real-time. It's what Google aspires to eventually, and Bing AI tries to do but is quite inferior in terms of speed, quality of responses, response length, and a host of other aspects... which I find utterly ironic given the relative size of the two companies (not to mention MS' direct investment and partnership with OpenAI). Hats off to Perplexity. I hope they continue to grow and expand.
