If you want someone to keep you happy, put the Perplexity app on your phone and use it in the talking mode. It is ridiculous in how it aims to please. It will even be your girlfriend or boyfriend if you want. 
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Sorry, I have tried that, and it is just not as effective. Hence all of the optimizer programs.
I have tried the conversational perplexity, but clearly it’s not the strong point of the perplexity platform (which for the little I’ve ascertained, it seems to be detailed and comparative research).
Also, if someone wants a virtual girlfriend, wife or mistress, there is the ‘romantic’ setting in the Grok conversational mode, which has been evidently programmed for the purpose. Of course, it carries also male voices for female users.
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I like Perplexity - Enterprise Pro. They just added these new search features for subscribers
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Enterprise users can now get cited answers powered by premium data sources, all in one place. No more juggling multiple subscriptions.
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Available premium sources currently include:
CB Insights: market insights, market maps, and company activity
PitchBook Essentials: firmographics for private and public companies
Statista: aggregated statistics, market data, trends, and forecasts
Wiley: business, medical, STEM, and psychology books, plus medical and life sciences journals
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We are starting to have scientific articles previously available behind paywalls (hence not readable by AIs) available to AIs scrutiny. Elsevier is offering something similar for all its journals. We’ll reach a point where some intermediaries, like Perplexity will offer journals of multiple editors to the scrutiny of Ais. This will be a huge turn of events. We may start to have our own meta-analyses custom-tailored from dozens of whole articles and supplementary material, rather than form summaries or rare articles free to consult. Of course, we may have to learn how to use this stool appropriately.
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Just curious how many paid subscriptions do people have? Perplexity Pro offers access for GPT 5 and Claude Sonnet. I have GPT Lro and Claude Pro but thinking of streamlining at some point.
I can’t speak for the people but I’ve trimmed down from 3 to 1 subscription.
I have no paid subscription, unless you count Microsoft Office 365 which includes copilot, which uses ChatGPT5.2 as its main platform (subject to changes).
The main reason why I’m reluctant to pay presently is because the evolution is so fast and the race so open and the contestants so close that it is not clear yet which one to choose. Unless we have a very specific field of interest. Gemini3pro is best in some benchmarks, whereas GPT5.2 is best in others and claude is best in coding and maybe creative writing and Grok is in a league of its own, perhaps preparing the great leap forward in the first quarter of 2026. In the meantime, I’m hopping from one platform to the other, when I finish my quota with gemini3 in the deep thinking mode, I shift to Grok 4.1 or GPT5-2 and if I have a lot of work to do ChatGPT5.2 inside Copilot will give me unlimited answers, although it may suffer from server congestion. Crazy times!
I have zero. The reason is that I personally find that the present capabilities of AI are not ready for prime time for my purposes. I still use regular free platforms (latest Gemini) to find papers, but have completely given up on bothering to read any AI generated “research”. It’s a waste of time. Sometimes I’ll scan some of the AI results RapAdmin and others here post of the paid platforms, but they exhibit exactly the same problems as the regular unpaid versions. They regurgitate the most surface level conventional wisdom on the subject (with regular howlers no human professional would commit), always missing any nuance - the rule that the more I know about a subject the more flaws of current AI I can see holds at all times. It’s still way too primitive. That said, like I said, it can be useful in finding papers - in this context OpenEvidence is very interesting (though not all the results are reliably relevant).
It is my opinion that the current AI architecture has reached a dead end and will not become appreciably better in its current design - it’s pushing on a string. It needs a new design paradigm to make further progress, a category leap. Maybe after the current AI bubble bursts people will get back to work on the fundamentals of the design and great things could happen. When that might be nobody knows. Research on AI has been evolving since the 50’s with regular outbursts every 25 years or so announcing “this time we really got it!” before the hype cycle collapses as the limitations become clear. It’s a long way to true AGI. We’ll see.
If you ever use AI in your google searches, or anything else for that matter, be aware that you are in great danger of being deceived. And if you think gross AI problems have been eliminated, think again. Example:
“SUSPENDED” as a DOCTOR - Thanks Google!
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Yes, it is a little annoying to pay for AI. FWIW: I think it is well worth it as each one costs less per month than most of my Amazon supplements. I especially like ChatGPT 5 plus for medical advice. I can load from a picture of my medical results, blood work, etc. without having to manually insert each result. Recently uploaded a picture of my cat’s lab to check on the validity of my vet’s diagnosis. This gives me reassurance that my doctor’s and vet’s diagnoses are correct. Recently I uploaded a picture of my forehead because I didn’t feel the dermatologist offered the correct diagnosis and treatment. He didn’t. ChatGPT 5 made the correct diagnosis from the picture and suggested a treatment plan. I know that ChatGPT’s advice was correct because I followed the plan and it worked.
"ChatGPT Plus ($20/month): Provides full access to models including GPT-5 and GPT-5 Thinking, with a standard context window of 32K tokens and early access to features like image and video generation.
Gemini:Google’s subscriptions are integrated into its Google One and Workspace ecosystems:
Google AI Pro ($19.99/month): This individual plan unlocks Gemini Advanced (using Gemini 3 Pro as of late 2025). It includes “Deep Research” capabilities, 2 TB of cloud storage, and AI integration within Docs, Gmail, and Sheets."
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And that is why I like Perplexity Enterprise Pro. It offers a wide variety of AI’s and access to sources I can’t get otherwise. You can let it deide which AI is providing the best answer or you can tell it to use a specific one from it’s list.
Also www.you.com has a sophisticated eco system of AI and API tools but I found it a bit too difficult to use early on. They have significantly improved their agents since I started using it 3 years ago when it was just an AI search engine.
Again, a relatively cheap price for the features.
Perplexity Pro, costing $20 per month or $200 per year
Enterprise Pro is $40 per month and offers a few more AI’s and perks
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I get Perplexity Pro included with my bank account package. The account costs me about €12/month and bundles a bunch of other subscriptions and Perplexity is one of the ones I actually use.
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Perplexity Enterprise Pro just added…
At Perplexity, we’re committed to making everyday research more efficient while keeping your team’s data secure. We’re excited to share some recent updates to Enterprise.
New Models in Perplexity
Perplexity keeps your team ahead with the latest models
All Enterprise users now have access to
GPT-5.2,
GPT-5.2 Thinking,
Gemini 3 Pro,
Kimi 2, and
Grok 4.1.
Enterprise Max users also have access to Nano Banana Pro to generate videos within Perplexity.
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OK, impressing suite of configurations available, for the price of about one or two. Plus the convenient deepsearch capabilities and agentic capabilities (limited) and some other perks. Of course, it’s not exactly so, because with Gemini3pro you get Nanobananapro and with Supergrok you get Imagine with a decent upload quota, but you can always use nanobananapro and others for free with a limited quota.
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You can use nanobanana basic with Perplexity, you just have to tell it to do that and it will. Then it’s part of a cohesive project space in Perplexity. It’s a very flexible agent that has “native” abilities in accessing the ones listed and is not restricted from accessing other resources if asked to do so.
For people who need something like the Pro version of nanobanana and other “Pro” versions as part of their daily work flow, Perplexity may not be the answer until you get to Perplexity Enterprise MAX version which is $325 per month and has a wider variety of “Pro” versions of AI’s in it’s list.
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Perplexity offer a 1 year free pro trial from either venmo or the paypal app
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Perplexity Pro is free for one year from many other services.
If you have PayPal, Venmo, or Xfinity get one year perplexity (their $20/mo plan) free:
https://www.perplexity.ai/join/p/venmo-subscription
https://www.xfinity.com/rewards
Remember to cancel the auto renewal right away so you don’t forget next year; or set a reminder.
I’m using free perplexity, Gemini (need the additional data storage for Gmail and drive, but the included Gemini has been great on the current iteration), and Claude (my favorite tone and interactions but limited by hitting the context limit too soon, many prompts immediately exceed its limits if including documents to analyze).
Privacy concerns are real, I’m not sure how to best handle these and like many others I’ve mostly conceded my data will be less protected than I’d prefer, but drops in the ocean of data that are unlikely to make it into the wrong hands … or so I tell myself.
Remember to delete your Claude prompts and to limit data use for model training where possible.
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