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Perplexity AI
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
TL;DR
- Deep Research is an agentic, iterative search process that plans actions, runs multiple searches, evaluates evidence, and synthesizes results into a single answer.
- Deep Research is now integrated into Perplexity Computer, allowing it to generate reports, dashboards, and other assets from researched answers.
- A new approach called "Search as Code" allows Deep Research to write its own search programs, building custom search plans and running thousands of steps in parallel.
- The integration enables Deep Research to pull from internal files and apps, grounding answers in business context, and produce work-ready formats like PDFs and decks.
- Deep Research within Computer is now a universal search skill, routing queries to the right retrieval patterns and reconciling results into unified answers.
- The "Search as Code" architecture treats search as a program, allowing AI to write code for retrieval steps, run them in parallel, and adapt mid-search based on results.
- Integration with Computer improves Deep Research's factual accuracy, depth of analysis, and citation quality, with inline citations linking to live sources.
- Examples of Deep Research use cases include buy-side due diligence in finance and competitive pipeline reviews in healthcare, integrating with internal data via App Connectors.