Perplexity has its own 'Deep Research' tool now too

In a blog post on Friday, Perplexity introduced a new tool called Deep Research that it says can conduct "in-depth research and analysis" to deliver detailed reports in response to your questions, and it's free for limited use. It comes just a couple of weeks after OpenAI announced its own Deep Research feature for ChatGPT Pro users… which itself followed Google's December announcement of Deep Research for Gemini. Perplexity's tool is available only on the web to start, but it will hit the iOS, Android and Mac apps soon too. Deep Research lets you generate in-depth research reports on any topic. Perplexity says its Deep Research "excels at a range of expert-level tasks -- from finance and marketing to product research" and takes about 2-4 minutes to come up with an answer, during which it "performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and reasons through the material."