In the case of the new PPLX online LLMs, Perplexity has developed its own approach to pulling in recent information.

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Perplexity AI has released its own large language models (LLMs) - pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online, which aim to provide helpful, factual, and up-to-date information. These LLMs differ from other leading models in their ability to offer current knowledge and real-time information. Perplexity augments its LLMs with the most relevant, up-to-date, and valuable information through their in-house search, indexing, and crawling infrastructure.

Perplexity AI unveils ‘online’ LLMs that could dethrone Google Search

Why Perplexity’s new online LLMs matter and how they differ from ChatGPT and others

Better at up-to-date info than OpenAI and Meta?

<p>I have been using it for a while now and it’s just faster and better than google search and Chatgpt as far as information fetching ( including information fetching from files)</p>
