Andy Halliday

Similarly, I just believe in Dennis Hassabis and the team at Google DeepMind keeping Gemini at the state of the art.

And I think we'll continually be surprised at just how quickly and completely Gemini adopts the real cutting edge technologies of AI and makes them available to us.

So I'm keeping that paid subscription for sure.

We haven't heard a lot about perplexity lately, but I noticed that Hunter says he uses perplexity a lot and for various reasons.

And I use perplexity every day.

I think of it as the answer engine.

You know, that's really what it's positioned as.

And I use it that way.

Well,

They also have a full range of different AI capabilities.

And one of them is deep research.

And they just launched an advanced version of their deep research, which is a state-of-the-art performance on the benchmarks.

And it's immediately available for Max Plan subscribers.

So you can pay a lot of money to be on Perplexity or not.

You can be a free user of Perplexity.

But the Max Plan subscribers are getting it now.

literally right now, you can do the deep research on there.

And it'll probably come down, not all the way to the free tier, the advanced deep research, but if you're a subscriber to Perplexity, eventually you'll get that.

Yeah, you know, I've been involved in software-related startups, and one of the things you have to do ultimately is you have to use the users as a test group because it wasn't possible.

We didn't have automated testing routines, you know, in the –