Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine
Perplexity AI launched a comprehensive search application programming interface on Thursday, giving developers direct access to the same massive web index that powers …
Venturebeat Michael Nuñez
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Discussion
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@natjjin
Nat
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One of the coolest things about working at Perplexity is I get to work with the smartest people with insane output quality bar. @JamesLiounis_ literally told me: we aren't releasing this until it is the best. Undisputedly the best. Perplexity's search API is out and it's
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@thdxr
Dax
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the perplexity search api looks very good we're going to integrate it properly so it just works with opencode but check it out - can quickly implement it as a custom tool [image]
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@aravsrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
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We will be offering a browsing API too. Stay tuned. Perplexity infrastructure on search and browsing will be second to none other than Google for a while, and long term, the single best.
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@glenngabe
Glenn Gabe
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“With an index covering hundreds of billions of webpages”. Well, now we know the size of their search index -> Introducing the Perplexity Search API https://www.perplexity.ai/... [image]
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@wenhuchen
Wenhu Chen
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Search API for Agents! It's a big move for Perplexity. [image]
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@ai_for_success
AshutoshShrivastava
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🚨 Perplexity just launched the Search API - Access to the same infra behind Perplexity's answer engine - Realtime index of 100B+ webpages - Faster, cheaper, more accurate than alternatives - SDK + tools for easy integration [image]
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@aravsrinivas
Aravind Srinivas
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Also, Perplexity Search API is better than Google for use with LLMs. The last row here is what you would get by using a Google SERP. Scores lower than us on Simple QA/HLE since Google optimizes for ad/link click ranking rather than utility as a search snippet for AI. [image]