[stavros]

Is this Perplexity the search engine? Why does it mention Llama in the title?

[rbut]

I'm guessing because perplexity is now based on llama 3. If you look at their labs [1] the choices of models seems to suggest this.

[1] https://labs.perplexity.ai

[stavros]

Sure, but it's a bit too "under the hood" to mention in something like this, no?

[ramonverse]

I like under the hood info, that is why I am in hackernews :)

[ogrisel]

What if perplexity decides to switch to another LLM backbone in the future?

[TechDebtDevin]

The money is in the app layer and compute. There's no reason to train foundation models to compete with Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta ect ect. Its the equivalent of lighting money on fire.