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Perplexity AI has recently launched a “Deep Research” feature to provide in-depth research and comprehensive reports on complex topics. It excels in handling complex queries across various topics such as finance, Technology, marketing, academics, health, and product research.  Perplexity’s Deep Research leverages large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to generate responses that are fact-checked, up-to-date, and deeply informative.

Perplexity AI has become the third AI company to introduce this feature after Google and Open AI.

Key Features of Perplexity Deep Research:

  • In-depth Analysis: 

The tool analyzes complex queries, considering keywords, intent, and semantics, and provides comprehensive reports with precise results.

  • Iterative Research: 

Deep Research iteratively searches, read documents and refines its approach based on gathered information, similar to how a human might research a new topic.

  • Content Generation: 

After evaluating data from multiple resources, Deep Research compiles its findings into well-structured reports.

  • Export Options: 

Users can export reports as PDFs or documents or convert and share them as Perplexity Pages.

  • Accessibility:

Deep Research is currently available on the web, with plans to roll out to iOS, Android, and Mac apps. Paid subscribers only need to pay $20/month to access an expert-level researcher on any topic for 500 daily queries, while free-tier users have a limited number of queries each day.

  • Speed: 

It takes only 2-4 minutes to answer complex questions which a human expert can answer by spending many hours.

Performance Metrics and How Perplexity Deep Research Stands Out:

In a perplexity AI blog, the company claims that Perplexity’s Deep Research has attained a 21.1% accuracy score in Humanity’s Last Exam, a comprehensive benchmark for AI systems, which is significantly higher than that of Gemini Thinking, o3-mini, o1, DeepSeek-R1, and many other leading models.

It has also reportedly Scored 93.9% accuracy on the SimpleQA benchmark, a bank of several thousand questions that test for factuality, thus making it one of the leading models to score high in industry benchmarks.

Perplexity’s Deep Research prioritizes in-depth analysis of the topics and selects only expert-supported content,making it better than other search engines . It fetches updated data from the web, provides citations, and summarizes complex topics into digestible insights making it invaluable for users.

The Future of AI-Driven Research:

Perplexity Deep Research is revolutionizing how we access and verify information in the digital age. Deep research features can help people unlock deep, accurate, and real-time insights within a few minutes. AI is continuously evolving and shortly platforms like these will become essential for fact-based decision-making, academic research, and corporate intelligence.