In a lot of ways, Perplexity is one of the sleeper AI tools. It doesn’t get as much attention as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot but they are quietly building a solid product.
Their latest addition for Perplexity Pro users is Perplexity Labs. They call this a tool to build projects from scratch - “Turn your ideas into completed docs, slides, dashboards, and more”.
Projects can take longer than normal search queries. Expect each project to take at least 10 minutes to complete. There is an option to have Perplexity notify you when the project is complete so you don’t have to stay in the program and wait.
While working through the project request, Perplexity will output its chain of thought (it breaks down what it is doing in each step) and may give you multiple assets that it creates along the way (i.e., documents, images, charts, code, etc.). It will take each section of the project and research it separately, learning what it needs to complete it properly. It will make the sources available to you.
Perplexity now has a very clean interface with 3 main options for its Pro users:
- Search
- Research
- Labs
If you haven’t tried out Perplexity yet, now might be the time.
Comments