Every day—and often several times a day—someone, somewhere is pitching a new AI chatbot, hoping to capitalize on the global tech sensation born of the launch of ChatGPT last year. But Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas will be the first to tell you that chatbots are passé, and that the world doesn’t need another clone of OpenAI’s flagship AI model.

“We want to communicate clearly to the end user that we’re not here to sell you another chatbot and alternative to ChatGPT,” Srinivas told Decrypt. “We’re here to help find answers to any question, and that’s why we call [Perplexity] an answer engine.”

Srinivas said the answer engine label comes from the core differentiator of Perplexity AI, designed to provide comprehensive answers that include links to sourced information.

The founder’s academic background, Srinivas said, shaped the design of Perplexity, noting that in academia, every statement in a paper requires a citation for credibility.

“We took that to heart and said, ‘What if a product is built in a way where it’s always grounded in real facts, rather than making up things and saying whatever it wants?”

To aid in its goal to create a better AI-powered search experience, Perplexity announced the raise of Go to Source to See Full Article
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