“Open weights strengthen competition and competition is what keeps the benefits of AI broadly shared rather than concentrated in the hands of few”. We believe this strongly at @perplexity_ai and are co-signing this letter, with @nvidia! Thanks to @a16z for putting this together!
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At its peak, Sun Microsystems was valued at 205B (394B if inflation adjusted). Sold software in enterprise servers. Got disrupted by Linux, x86, and commodity hardware. Ended up selling to Oracle for 7.4B, losing 96% of its value.
Open source models running on local hardware can have a similar impact given what’s going on.
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Two reasons why we integrated Grok 4.5 inside Perplexity Computer within a few hours:
1) It scored the best on our evals and was the most cost effective option
2) ZDR was available from the get go and that’s what our customers want
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We’ve been post-training a version of GLM that is trained to escalate to a frontier model inside the Computer harness. When paired with an advisor, this model functions at Opus 4.8 grade performance at a fraction of the cost. Available now as a research preview!
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The DGX Spark is an incredible piece of hardware. Running it to almost full GPU and RAM utilization and it still doesn’t have any issues with the heat. Unified memory is the way to go for maximizing token value per watt.
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America's leading open-source model, Nemotron 3 Ultra, is now available on Perplexity for all Pro and Max users. Give it a shot!
Today, we're rolling out an Advanced version of Perplexity Deep Research, achieving state-of-the-art performance on external and internal benchmarks, beating every other deep research tool on accuracy, usability, and reliability across all verticals.
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