Comment by olvy0

I've been using Perplexity for small, fast queries almost exclusively for the last year or so. Their Sonar model is Llama running on top of a Cerebras chip, and searches the internet in an incredible speed. Its results are astonishingly good (for a Llama model), although in more niche areas it still makes mistakes, so in those areas I usually double-check its sources or do an extra ddg search myself.

Actually I've never used chat gpt, I went straight to Perplexity after having discovered it. Their free tier is extremely generous (not even requiring an account). Not affiliated.

OP currently doesn't look it will affect that, seems like Open AI touts it for agentic coding only, not as an alternative to chat gpt, although that will probably change.