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Just a few days ago Perplexity released R1 1776. This is not a new model but a different version of the DeepSeek R1 that came out about a month earlier from a company in China. The original DeepSeek R1 is open source and useful, but it is full of censorship on anything critical of the … Read more

Anthropic released a new model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet a few hours ago. It is the successor to the very successful Claude 3.5 Sonnet. According to the announcement, it is a hybrid of a regular AI model and a reasoning model that switches automatically based on your query. The reasoning mode is similar to DeepSeek … Read more

Perplexity AI does not include a built-in feature that lets you use it as an AI companion in a side panel. You can still make Perplexity behave like a simple companion that stays with you while you research, browse, or work. I use a small browser panel that keeps Perplexity visible on the right side … Read more