Vespa.ai the company behind the leading platform to build and deploy large-scale, real-time AI applications powered by big data– joined Perplexity to announce the AI-powered answer engine’s shift bringing its search feature in-house. The move will significantly enhance the speed, accuracy, and relevance of search results at a scale only made possible on Vespa’s platform.
“The recipe: 1. Solve Search. 2. Use it to solve everything else,” said Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity.
Perplexity’s innovative approach of direct, sourced answers to search queries relies on a massive and scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture that can efficiently retrieve and process vast amounts of information from the web, internal databases and users’ personal files. By building on Vespa’s platform, Perplexity delivers accurate, near-real-time responses to more than 15 million monthly users, handling more than 100 million queries each week.
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Perplexity has used Vespa.ai’s managed platform to efficiently scale its RAG architecture, ensuring low-latency, real-time retrieval of relevant information from massive datasets. Vespa.ai provides Perplexity with the flexibility, speed, and reliability needed to deliver best-in-class conversational experiences to millions of users worldwide.
“We’re continually expanding Vespa’s capabilities to provide the flexibility, speed, and reliability necessary to deliver best-in-class conversational experiences to millions of users worldwide, and the project with Perplexity has allowed us to show just what the platform is capable of,” said Jon Bratseth, CEO of Vespa.ai. “We’re thrilled to partner with Perplexity to power their search capabilities.”
SOURCE: Businesswire