Perplexity

Perplexity is what search should feel like: ask anything, get a synthesized answer with numbered citations you can actually check. Pro searches run multi-step research across the live web, Spaces keep project research organized, and model choice (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Sonar) comes built in. For factual, current-events and buying-decision queries, it beats asking a general chatbot.

Hallucinated facts are the biggest chatbot risk, and Perplexity's cite-everything design is the best answer to it. It has quietly replaced Google for a lot of our research.

Every place Perplexity shows up across Choose My Stack — the research it’s part of and the articles that cover it.

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