Home / AI Research & Search / Perplexity
Perplexity logo

Perplexity

perplexity.ai

AI answer engine with cited web sources.

Visit Perplexity ↗

CategoryAI Research & Search
Websiteperplexity.ai
StatusEstablished tool
Alternatives3 on PickAI

What is Perplexity?

Perplexity is an AI tool in the AI Research & Search category on PickAI. AI answer engine with cited web sources. Answer engines and research assistants with sources.

Who is Perplexity for?

Perplexity is a good fit for people who need answers with sources, literature reviews or fact-finding. If you are comparing options, look at how it fits your workflow, pricing on the official website, and the alternatives below such as NotebookLM, Elicit, Consensus.

Perplexity in the news

The Verge

ChatGPT Chrome extension can read your open tabs

OpenAI upgraded the ChatGPT Chrome extension so it can use your open browser tabs when you tag Chrome, and ChatGPT Work can control tabs for tasks like filling forms. Atlas is gone; this brings similar browser help into Chrome.

2026-10-15
NVIDIA

NVIDIA RTX Spark: a personal AI supercomputer chip

NVIDIA says RTX Spark combines gaming, creative and local AI workloads in one superchip with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute.

2026-10-13
Wired

Wikipedia's struggle in an age of AI answers

A Wired book excerpt looks at declining Wikipedia use as AI summaries answer questions directly, and what that means for the project.

2026-10-13

Alternatives to Perplexity

↗

NotebookLM

notebooklm.google

Google's research assistant grounded in your own documents.

↗

Elicit

elicit.com

AI research assistant for finding and analyzing papers.

↗

Consensus

consensus.app

Search engine that finds answers in scientific research.

Browse by category

Get the weekly AI tools drop

New tools and releases for builders, once a week. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.