I absolutely love this and will try as many as possible very soon. I think "intelligent search" (asking LLM questions to search on the Web by communicating, preferably by voice) is one of the few solid use cases for LLM. I hate the idea of having this happen in the cloud with someone having my data, so doing this locally with my local LLM would be ideal.

Even after the release of GPT4o, Perplexity Pro with Claude 3 Opus is by far my most used LLM application. For me, the writing quality of Claude 3 combined with a wider variety of information sources makes it far surpass raw ChatGPT for most non-creative/non-interactive tasks.

I recommend Phind.com, it’s been much better and faster for me than Perplexity Pro. I typically use their custom 70B model but you can also use GPT4 o or Turbo, or Claude 3 Opus.

The web search itself till happening on the cloud though? And instead of searching one provider it now searches multiple… not sure how much better this is really.

You're being downvoated, and I think the reason is this: there is a perceived difference in intentionally contributing something like a post on HN and having your personal searches be collected by Google.

It would be awesome if this could also search my Obsidian notes at the same time, and if it worked seamlessly on all of my devices.

Ah, those appear to be entirely multi-device-sync problems. (I use logseq with git-autocommit for storage and backup - but since the multi-node sync stuff wasn't available for self hosting anyway, I've never tried it, and thus dodged the problem entirely. Obviously for a lot of people multi-device use is the entire point, but for some of us, logseq is "just an editor"...)

I actually do something like this with my logseq notes. Since all of the files are .md in a directory, one can load them all in to a vectordb and use it for RAG. Logseq has an API too but using the .md files is easy.

First I’m hearing of the meta search engine SearxNG too. Neat. Feel like we’ve come full circle, going back to meta search engines again.

This is cool. My biggest question was "does it work?" then I had another look at the repo and saw the "Repocloud" one click deployment. And it's quite well done. Apart from signin up for the repocloud account (3$ free credit) and waiting for the deployment (5mins) ... I'm now waiting for my first answer which doesn't seem to come through and there are not a many ways to trouble shoot as far as I can see... I've asked on discord

Oh interesting, with the collapse of Google result quality lately I've been thinking about trying out SearxNG in my homelab. If you want to expand on the headaches you've run into, I'd be interested to hear!

Super cool! I would love if we could make this serverless and easily deployable with CDK or Terraform. Maybe I’ll take that up as a side project, who knows!

When making an alternative to something, don't reference the name of the thing you're copying if that thing has (or can afford) a legal team to protect their brand. If your product can reasonably be confused with the original (it can) they will eat your soul.

Huh? So reactos shouldn't say they build an alternative to Windows? As long as you build it yourself and don't steal any resources or secrets, there is no problem mentioning that it's an alternative or replacement for another product. What's much more dangerous is picking a name for your own product that resembles the original.

You can reference the competitor, but you don't want there to be any risk that a moron in a hurry might confuse your product with theirs, else you're in for a trademark violation.

Both of these are built on top of git, an open source project, so Gitlab is not a riff on Github. Perplexica on the other hand seems like a direct reference to Perplexity, not on the concept of being perplexed by something.

Yet the way git is used is still similar. Both lead with ‘git’ in their name, both append a pithy three letter suffix to ‘git’ that both describe some kind of space where people meet to do stuff. Surely that’s more than just coincidence.

Isn't "Perplexity" itself a direct reference to a machine learning term that, among other things, is very relevant to large language models, on top of which Perplexity is built?

Actually I loved it. I dont think they have any grounds to sue. Its different and close enough. Also they wouldn’t sue a project on github, if they do they show their faces its worse for them. Also many forks will happen and they have to sue many. Worst case you change the name of the repo. Thats the power of open source ;)

Yuzu’s downfall was not the repo, it was their Discord. They were sharing DRM cracking keys on there and getting paid $30K/month on Patreon. It’s the same reason most emulators require you to bring your own BIOS.

I made my own version of this for personal use some time ago, it's a fun project! I use Kagi for the search backend and Colly/ScrapingFish (which has plans starting at $2) for getting the content. Both work really well!

I've been using Perplexity for months now on the Free tire (with the 5 Pro searches/4 hours) and its been plenty for me and I use it has completely replaced google for me. So I'm not sure where Perplexica fits in my use case, especially that I'll have to install and maintain it and use lesser models than Perplexity.

Some people want to self-host this technology. AI is very powerful, and not everyone wants that to be controlled by large corporations or institutions.

Anyone used it yet? Was posted here a while back. I'm interested to hear whether it works and how good it is rather than many "this looks great" comments. Perplexity.ai itself has been pretty poor for me after I got past the honeymoon phase

Not only that, but it opens the project up to having to deal with a trademark cease and desist letter and then having to rebrand. Preplexity would be obligated to send one in order to protect its trademark if they become aware of this. How are seemingly decent software developers so unaware of anything besides coding?

Thank you so much for posting this and ofc the creators. My brother and I were in a debate and this just proved my point. Feels real good to see it. Cant wait to try it ;)

Alright, read up on domains, then try arguing that 'perplexity' as company and noun are in different spaces! I grant you that if they were, the company could trademark that noun. But it seems clear that Perplexity named itself after the noun and by so doing gave up the option of trademarking its company name.

HN is so incredible. The topic can be just about anything and there’s someone here with just the right expertise and/or set of skills to share their two pennies. The current topic is AI and IP law and here comes someone who’s an IP lawyer and AI engineer. I truly love this place.