This perplexity CEO talks a lot of shit about Google on X but is actually just relying on Google. His thoughts on hiring google engineers are funny - “For Google employees, what we usually say is, "If you really just want money and comfort, stay back." The only reason to come to Perplexity instead of staying at Google is if you want to actually ship things very regularly and own a big chunk of the code base yourself, versus building on top of tools that other people have already built inside Google.”
Seriously this guy has an attitude problem lol. Leaching off openAI for models and Google for ranking??
Charge $20 to run a google search and plug it into chatGPT $1B valuation and rising Oh yeah, it’s bubble time
Seriously it’s just a ChatGPT wrapper plus links from Google 😂 The only perplexity here is their valuation
The Perplexity CEO DM'd me on Twitter because I mentioned I didn't think Perplexity would ever hit besides a really niche group of people. That says everything you need to know about him
What did he dm you for?
To try to change my mind
He is talking shit. 100s of Perplexity’s will come and go, google search is here to stay.
Aravind is an idiot, scammer and an asshole. I am building my own damn version of Perplexity and will open-source it. https://omniplex.vercel.app (In Dev)
Wow
Damn..
Here is where people found it out and got surprised how they wrapped the claimed competitor product while badmouthing them all the time: https://x.com/agihippo/status/1769580252425269267?s=46 https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/AsedfsML8W
And from employees who worked at perplexity: https://x.com/masterly_in/status/1769785650956402907?s=46
I can assure you they don’t use Google. They using Bing. Aravind posted about it in Hacker News also and I am also using it.
I kinda thought this had to be the case. Perplexity’s whole thing is that they cite sources for your searches, but where do you get those sources at scale? I recently tried the same search on perplexity and Google, and the citations it returned were just the first few google results. Perplexity clearly read the links, but I don’t think that’s too strong of a value add.
First 5 links of Bing actually
I’m just sharing my test case. I didn’t bother to check bing at the time. (And I think Google is one of many input signals to Bing, at least circa the early days, not my space.)
All the high profile LLM successes that can actually make money so far have been shown to be flops.
Its a fraud, mostly to get funding. its going to crash once reality hits the fan.
I would be happy with a product that wrapped Google's search responses but removed ads and YouTube videos.
Would you also be happy not being paid?
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A lot of arrogant startups are pretty phony. Most startups that actually matter don’t get negative press because they’re actually busy working and not making thought posts on LinkedIn
hilarious coming from a metamate
I don’t get your point. Im not meta and meta isn’t me. It’s just a job