Hardly, but I applaud the effort they do to remain in existence.
They might get relegated to niche use cases, or pivot like Midjourney. I'm glad they exist, even for the sake of fighting against the duopoly that's just forming with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Perplexity can fight Gemini for that 3rd spot. Gemini is kind of fumbling it, so they have a real fighting chance, imho.
I do not understand how you can conclude that they both are even competitors - along any dimension
Perplexity has now become a speciality tool used for a few use cases primarily via third party models (unsure if they are still continuing to develop their own mdoels and where they rank)
Google on the other hand is still actively trying to develop SOTA models (or at least 3rd best) and also is widely used amongst cost sensitive projects.
I see no comparison between them worth putting them alongside each other.
From and investor and "market" perspective, he only AI that matters is the one built into your phone, TV, car, and all your smarthome appliances. Google and Apple completely own this space.
If anything Anthropic and Open AI are at a severe disadvantage. Open AI at least provides backend model services with Siri
Is this a gemini vs Antigravity-cli thing? I use agy as my cli at home and it's as good as Opus/Sonnet for me -- but I haven't tried very taxing tasks. I use Aragon/Flash. I'm not modifying large code bases, more like vibe coding throwaway projects at home.
But Sam Altman said back in the GPT-3.5 days that exactly this will happen to all GPT wrapper startups. [0]
[0]: https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1779930498623742187
They might get relegated to niche use cases, or pivot like Midjourney. I'm glad they exist, even for the sake of fighting against the duopoly that's just forming with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Perplexity can fight Gemini for that 3rd spot. Gemini is kind of fumbling it, so they have a real fighting chance, imho.
Perplexity has now become a speciality tool used for a few use cases primarily via third party models (unsure if they are still continuing to develop their own mdoels and where they rank)
Google on the other hand is still actively trying to develop SOTA models (or at least 3rd best) and also is widely used amongst cost sensitive projects.
I see no comparison between them worth putting them alongside each other.
If anything Anthropic and Open AI are at a severe disadvantage. Open AI at least provides backend model services with Siri
That said, I stick to Claude in the terminal for 99% of my LLM usage.
I also think that this is going to be very useful and many startups are entering this space of agent teammates with persistent memory.
Honest question… why IP does Perplexity have that gives them any moat whatsoever left in this increasingly commoditized market?