The You.com search engine allows users to create their own personalized AI assistants using top language models such as GPT-4 or Llama 3. This allows users to tailor the AI to their individual needs.
Perplexity has introduced a new feature called “Pages,” which uses AI to automatically create reports on a topic. Pages creates a custom website for which it researches information and writes the text. However, the feature has been criticized for copying content from news sites such as Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg without giving sufficient credit, Forbes …
Perplexica is an open source search engine with AI support, similar to Perplexity. It provides answers with references. Once installed, it can use local language models such as Llama 3 or Mixtral.
With the introduction of AI-powered search results, the human-generated web is taking a back seat, writes Casey Newton. Google plans to answer more questions directly on the search results page and, according to Newton, is abstracting the web into input for its big language models. The new concept of “let Google do the Googling for …
Rumor has it that OpenAI is working on a new feature for ChatGPT to search the web and provide sources in the answers. This could make ChatGPT a direct competitor to Google and other AI-powered search engines such as Perplexity.
Canadian startup Upend offers a new kind of AI search engine that gives users access to over 100 different language models to get accurate answers with sources. Unlike competitors such as Perplexity, Upend relies on a pricing model designed to appeal to teams and students.
As expected, Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference to demonstrate its strength in AI. Among other things, the company presented new AI models for a wide range of tasks. Some will run directly on Android devices or can be found in the Chrome browser. Others use Google’s specialized servers. They create text, …
AI-powered search tool Perplexity closed a new round of funding and is valued at more than $1 billion. With the new capital and a new Enterprise Pro Plan, the company plans to expand globally and offer its secure, AI-powered search service to enterprises.
The Brave browser is adding a privacy-focused, AI-powered “answer engine” to its Brave Search search engine that can provide answers in the form of text, fact cards, and images.
This article from The Verge examines whether AI-based search engines can already replace Google. The author analyzes the three most common types of search queries – navigation, information, and exploration – and concludes that AI tools are significantly slower than Google for navigation queries. They perform better for information queries and can be especially helpful …