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Perplexity Challenges OpenAI with Cheaper Deep Research Tool 🔍
Why The "Godfather of AI" Now Fears His Own Creation
Gina Acosta
February 15, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today's edition, we're taking a look at Perplexity's new Deep Research tool, which acts like an autonomous researcher. Although OpenAI and Google have released similar tools, this one is cheaper and free for all.
Let’s jump right in!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Chart of the week: AI usage by job type
Perplexity takes on ChatGPT and Gemini with new Deep Research AI
Free Resources
AI tools to check out
Video of the week
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Chart of the week
AI usage by job type 💼
Anthropic’s research shows that AI is used most for coding, with 37.5% of queries to its chatbot Claude falling under the “computer and mathematical” category.
Education occupations were also highly represented, and unsurprisingly, occupations requiring physical labor were least present.
AI News
PERPLEXITY
Perplexity takes on ChatGPT and Gemini with new Deep Research AI
Perplexity has entered the competitive world of AI-powered research with its new Deep Research tool, powered by the Deepseek-R1 reasoning model.
Details:
Perplexity’s Deep Research can autonomously research a topic, process hundreds of sources, and generate a report within one to two minutes.
According to CEO Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity can "easily" offer the service at "10-100x lower pricing" than the competition. While OpenAI charges $200 per month for 100 queries, Perplexity offers 500 queries per day for $20 per month.
The feature is currently available to everyone via web browsers, with plans to expand to iOS, Android, and Mac soon. Free users have daily query limits.
Just as with OpenAI's and Gemini's alternatives, Perplexity's reports are not 100% reliable, as they may contain inaccuracies, and users are responsible for verifying the results.
While Perplexity’s competitors scramble to justify their premium pricing, thousands of users are already testing its Deep Research capabilities. The company aims to accelerate adoption among those who previously saw these AI tools as out of reach.
Resources
👉 A prompt to avoid ChatGPT simply agreeing with everything you say
🤔 Why experts call the Paris AI Action Summit a ‘missed opportunity’
🏆 Which AI agent is the best? This new leaderboard can tell you
AI Tools to check out
🚀 Accento: Transform your LinkedIn strategy with AI-powered content creation.
👉 Athina: A collaborative AI development platform designed for your team to build, test and monitor AI features.
🔍 Deepfind: Privacy-first AI search engine.
👀 Aftercare: AI-powered survey for in-depth user feedback.
🦓 Zebracat: Craft viral videos in seconds with AI.
Video of the week
Why The "Godfather of AI" Now Fears His Own Creation
Geoffrey Hinton, a British-Canadian scientist and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, is known as the "Godfather of AI" for his groundbreaking work on artificial neural networks.
This interview explores Hinton's growing concerns about AI advancing beyond human intelligence and posing an existential threat. He discusses the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and AI's limitations, as well as the challenges of regulation and its societal impacts, such as job displacement and increasing inequality.
You can check the timestamps in the video description to go to the segments you might be interested in.
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