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Add Perplexity for Web search (as a built-in plugin)

Would love to use my perplexity credentials as the search function instead of google

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  • Ngoc Nguyen changed status to Completed
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    May 6, 2024

  • Maroon Telescope

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    Apr 21, 2024

    You don't need to use their API. There's a github program called ChatAll that gives access to various models through API but also via web interfaces (you log into the service, whether that's Microsoft's copilot, higgingchat or perplexity, and you continue the chat in the ChatAll interface, not the web interface.

    If we had access to such models in TypingMind, this would greatly increase it's use cases.

  • Amethyst Key

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    Apr 19, 2024

    Came here to make this request as well and was happy to find that it is already being talked about.

  • Tony Dinh

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    Mar 2, 2024

    Unfortunately, as of now Perplexity API is no where as good as their web interface. https://x.com/tdinh_me/status/1763911099211280655?s=20

    • Silver Hubble

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      Mar 2, 2024

      Tony Dinh Try with their new model "sonar-medium-online" or their fine-tuned "llama-2-70b-chat", see here: https://docs.perplexity.ai/changelog/api-updates-february-2024

      Pplx-70b-online is now deprecated.

      Look at the attachment.

      Anyway, for the web version they historically used GPT-4 (now Turbo) for the Pro (former "Copilot") mode.

    • Tony Dinh

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      Mar 4, 2024

      Diego Sala it's a little bit better but still very low quality to make a comparable experience as the current Web Search I think.

    • Silver Hubble

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      Mar 4, 2024

      Tony Dinh, sure, the web version in GPT-4 Pro/Copilot mode is much better in quality. However, their API online models, as well as their web default version, still have some use for their very convenient speed and cost, especially considering that Pro users of Perplexity (like me) have $5/free credit for the API each month.

      As for quality, I don't think there are better web-augmented API models than those of Perplexity, though. Do you?

  • Tony Dinh changed status to Planned
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    Mar 2, 2024

  • Yellow Flamingo

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    Feb 22, 2024

    +1 for Perplexity search suggestions

  • Amaranth Dew

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    Feb 22, 2024

    I was JUST about to make this feature request. Can this be done using the Perplexity API? If so we can use the existing settings from the custom model (for users who have added it)

  • Gray Crater

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    Feb 8, 2024

    Yes, please add Perplexity Copilot for search, it is miles better than Google search.