Perplexity uses Claude AI and its own web crawlers to search the internet for real time information and to analyze and summarize into a concise natural language text.
Its core features include:
A search engine that summarizes and cites its findings.
Suggestions of prompts for further dialogue
Image retrieval and creation (latter only with Pro)
Ability to summarize uploaded documents
Focus modes: web, academic, writing, math, video, and social media