By Vishal Mathur
Publication Date: 2026-02-11 05:18:00
Cognitive warmup. A few thoughts to start off with. Random, unrelated musings, but wanted to get these off my chest.
It was in August of 2025 when AI startup Perplexity made a cheeky $34.5-billion bid to buy the Chrome browser from Google. Aravind Srinivas was all over social media feeds, and you wouldn’t have been criticised for feeling he’s larger than life (and that Perplexity is awesome). Here we are, six months later, and the latest peep we have heard from Perplexity is the Model Council.
How times change, when a bubble is to be kept inflated.
Secondly, it is being reported that Nvidia Corp. will pause new gaming GPU releases in 2026. The reason? A global memory chip shortage is believed to be the reason. You don’t say, Nvidia? The same shortage (and driving up prices, mind you) that you played a big role in causing?
- Deliberating Perplexity’s AI Model Council
- Understanding Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 model
- Meta Platforms’s Avocado diet.
A council of AI models, deliberating your query
Perplexity’s Model Council, which the AI company dubs a multi-model research feature that brings several models together for one answer, is perhaps that push for that subjective relevance and accuracy for specific queries, which should’ve been tackled much earlier.
Call me an optimistic pessimist by nature, but to have a number of frontier reasoning large language models (LLMs) at work, the chances of getting precise (and correct)…