Perplexity launches its own freemium product for "deep research"

Perplexity has become the latest AI company to release a deep research tool. The goal is to provide more detailed answers with real links for more professional use cases compared to what you might get from a consumer chatbot. The feature excels at a wide range of expert-level tasks — from finance and marketing to product research.

The Deep Research feature in Perplexity is currently available on the web, and will soon be added to the Mac, iOS, and Android apps. To use it, select "Deep Research" from the dropdown menu when submitting a query in Perplexity. A detailed report will then be generated, which can be exported as a PDF or shared as a Perplexity page.

Perplexity's Deep Research tool scored 21.1% on an AI evaluation test consisting of expert-level questions across various academic fields, easily outperforming most other models such as Gemini Thinking and OpenAI's GPT-4o, though it did not match OpenAI's Deep Research. Perplexity's Deep Research also operates faster, completing most tasks in under three minutes.

Source: TechCrunch