What the Rise of Perplexity Represents

Perplexity isn't the next Google, and that's precisely why it's succeeding.

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It was a big week for practical AI. Besides the Perplexity news — a tool millions of people use every day — there was also the real-world debut of the Rabbit r1 AI gadget, Adobe’s advanced AI features that arrived in the new Photoshop beta (our early impression: they’re much more handy than the previous versi…