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As one example, there is a 4 hour youtube video lecture or podcast, with chat gpt voice i can only get very superficial info from it, not from the actual transcripts, mostly from probably the topic and researching the people involved to get very generic answers. But perplexity seems to extract transcripts and gives you an in-depth summary or you can ask exact things. I.e. in which lecture was this topic heavily criticized and in what context was it defended, what were the wordings....it will tell you, chatgpt says go to that episode and listen yourself for more detaill.
Or doing projects and deep research from social media and youtube and online forums sources and revealing those sources. I.e. reliability of Rivian based on online forums, or how much can i get this paddle used on ebay vs. A new one of an inferior brand etc. It accesses a lot of things. Again chatgpt keeps catching up.
Having both is a good option. Last night perplexity had an outtage , very uncommon, and i had to go to my chatgpt (it is plus) for some of my needs, I couldn't trust its depths so this morning i repeated everything with perplexity. Perplexity also has gpt5 and gpt5 thinking access in it. But not agent making or other things like Canva that come in handy especially for coding etc. which i dont use.
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I use this and Gemini and Gemini Pro Deep Research is much better.
But, if you are a student or can qualify as one, you can get both Gemini Pro and Perplexity Pro
Gemini Pro for Students is free for one year:
https://gemini.google/sg/students/?hl=en
Was using it to compare Mutual Funds from Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab.
Compared the results with the free ChatGBT and the Investment Companies web-sites.
ChatGBT correctly stated their expense ratios. Perplexity Pro gave wrong information.
Not quite. While Perplexity is one of OpenAI's largest customers, Perplexity has a significant partnership with Anthropic and uses their Claude models extensively through Amazon Bedrock. Perplexity has Jeff Bezos being a investor and cheerleader.
Perplexity also develops and trains its own proprietary language models (the Sonar family) using AWS infrastructure. They use the Amazon SageMaker and Amazon EC2 P4de Instances powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
Nvidia is also a supporter of Perplexity.
Basically the Idea is a hybrid approach to keep Google from running away with the market.
I don't think Perplexity is desperate, but just trying to get their brand out there and make, if nothing else, Perplexity viable name in the business.
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Was using it to compare Mutual Funds from Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab.<br />
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Compared the results with the free ChatGBT and the Investment Companies web-sites.<br />
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ChatGBT correctly stated their expense ratios. Perplexity Pro gave wrong information.
Using the same model? You can pick from Sonar, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GTP-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4 when using perplexity pro.
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I refuse to use the ID.me data miner.
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edit: here is a summary of Gemini's answer
Choose Perplexity Pro if:
Your main goal is research, fact-checking, or learning.
You need to trust your answers and require clear, verifiable citations for every claim.
You're doing academic, journalistic, or market research.
You want the flexibility to switch between different AI models (like GPT and Claude) for the same prompt.
Choose Gemini Pro (me) if:
You need a partner to help you create, write, and brainstorm—like drafting emails, writing code, creating a presentation, or planning a project.
You work heavily within the Google ecosystem (Gmail, Docs, Sheets) and want AI help directly inside those apps.
Your tasks are multimodal (e.g., "Analyze this chart and write a summary," "Generate an image for this blog post," or "Create a short video clip").
Oh and you don't have to be a current student, you just need to still have a student account.
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Perplexity seems to be getting desperate and falling behind other companies.
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Yep, desperate to attract more subscriptions. They offer free 1-year from multiple partners, refusing to admit that no one is going to pay for their "Pro" service.
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