Perplexity
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Perplexity is an AI search company whose API platform offers model-agnostic, full-stack agent infrastructure with real-time search, frontier model switching, and the same execution environment used internally — now integrated with Vercel AI Gateway.
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
Major AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, Perplexity) are burning $5–$80 per user monthly on subsidized inference, forcing GitHub Copilot and competitors to abandon flat-rate subscriptions for usage-based pricing to escape broken unit economics.
I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs
ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity make directly identifiable HTTP requests to fetch content, while Gemini piggybacks on Google's existing Googlebot index—exposing fundamentally different content-retrieval strategies across major AI providers.
Google launches a Gemini AI app on Mac
Google launches native Gemini app for Mac with screen-sharing and Option+Space keyboard shortcuts, joining the desktop AI assistant fight against Claude and ChatGPT.
Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets
Accel deploys $5B into late-stage bets across AI software, robotics, and defense hardware—signaling VC confidence in capital-intensive, infrastructure-dependent startups reaching maturity.
Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows
Google embeds reusable Gemini AI prompts directly in Chrome as Skills, joining OpenAI (Atlas) and Perplexity (Comet) in the escalating browser-integrated AI wars.