Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry

[Kaz]

 

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Perplexity has shattered the AI market’s status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool that generates comprehensive research reports in minutes and opens advanced AI capabilities to users at a fraction of typical enterprise costs.

“Thankful for open source! We’re going to keep making this faster and cheaper,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a post on X. “Knowledge should be universally accessible and useful. Not kept behind obscenely expensive subscription plans that benefit the corporates, not in the interests of humanity!”

 

 

https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-just-made-ai-research-crazy-cheap-what-that-means-for-the-industry/

 

I'm looking forward to a world where OpenAI isn't worth the money they sank into R&D because training AI doesn't have a high cost of entry.

 

Anyone interested in AI should check out LM Studio.  It's easy to get DeepSeek and Cognitive AI running locally.  They aren't locked down and are willing to answer cyber security questions.

[GanjaSMK]

I am not sure how I can use this yet but intend to. 

 

@Kaz 

 

How's the local paradigm for DeepSeek - like; 32GB RAM / 4080S enough to run without many hiccups/fast enough?

[Kaz]

4 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

How's the local paradigm for DeepSeek - like; 32GB RAM / 4080S enough to run without many hiccups/fast enough?

Should be great!  I'm on a 7900XTX along with 32 GB of ram and it only takes a second or two to think and then spits out text faster than I can read it.  Nvidia is supposed to be even better for AI.  The models all run on 'lessor' hardware, it just takes longer.  I think Chrombooks may struggle, but they were never a real computer! 

 

 

This doesn't take a video to set up, but it really shows how easy it is to get up and running.  I watched this on my phone and then did a quick reference later when I went to install it. 

[GanjaSMK]

Badass thanks dude.