Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg’s $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity’s Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

The launch of Perplexity’s Computer got quite a bit of attention from almost everyone with an interest in AI. The new product combines multi-model and multi-agent for both researching and autonomously executing complex tasks. Naturally, almost every techie put it to the test, including X user @hamptonism (Hampton). They claim to have needed but one afternoon to build a clone of Bloomberg’s Terminal, going as far as saying “Perplexity just became the first Al company to truly go head-to-head with the Bloomberg Terminal.”

Those are the pudgiest of bold claims, as the Terminal costs a few pennies at around $30,000 per year. It’s also Bloomberg’s bread-and-butter, representing about 85% of the firm’s approximate $12 billion yearly revenue. Hampton showed a short clip of them operating their terminal clone, and it definitely resembles the Terminal’s basic information and feeds, an impressive feat, at least apparently.