Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry
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Summary
AI tool company Perplexity has launched Deep Research, which creates comprehensive research reports in just a few minutes, shattering the “status quo” of costly, complex AI tools, CEO Aravind Srinivas said.
The tool performs multiple searches and analyses hundreds of sources, offering speeds and rates inaccessible to smaller players, with enterprise-level AI tools offering such services for thousands of dollars per month.
This separates the digital AI divide between large and small companies, giving small businesses, researchers and professionals access to advanced AI capabilities.
Perplexity’s tool handles complex tasks across several industries and can export findings and share them on its platform, performing technical documentation and healthcare insights, for example.
Deep Research plans to expand to iOS, Android and Mac platforms, which could accelerate adoption rates.
The launch highlights the question for companies of whether their expensive AI services are really delivering value for money.