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Gradient Dissent · September 5, 2025 · 55m
Perplexity: Building the AI Answer Engine
Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats on building an AI-powered answer engine that challenges Google Search by providing direct, sourced answers.
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Yarats describes how Perplexity changes the search environment: instead of presenting links for users to evaluate, it provides direct answers with citations. This environmental change reshapes information-seeking behavior.
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Yarats describes Perplexity's engineering philosophy: you cannot control what users will ask. You can control the quality of your retrieval pipeline, answer generation, and citation accuracy.
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