Everyone forgot about Perplexity, but it still does this one thing better

Not long ago, Perplexity was the AI tool everyone was talking about. It was labeled a Google killer, and everyone thought it was poised to change web search forever. Then ChatGPT added web browsing, Google launched Gemini with real-time search, and suddenly, the hype started to die down.

Perplexity itself contributed to that. If you bought an annual Perplexity subscription, you were lied to, and the chatbot had started giving wrong answers on purpose. But despite all of that, it still does one thing better than most AI assistants or chatbots you’ll find on the market. Writing Perplexity off entirely misses what it still does remarkably well—and that’s one of the biggest reasons to continue using it.