Perplexity Is Still Better at Quick Searches

Simon Willison writes that &ldquo;AI assisted search-based research actually works now.&rdquo; o3 and o4-mini agentic research is truly impressive, as are ChatGPT&rsquo;s and Gemini&rsquo;s Deep Research. But I consistently find queries where Perplexity gets it right, and ChatGPT and Gemini get it wrong. An example: &ldquo;how is chatgpt-4o-latest different from gpt-4o.&rdquo; Only Perplexity…