User-pliqlSep 4, 2026
Is Perplexity actually building a moat or just riding the AI search wave
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still think distribution matters more than tech here, they got a head start on mindshare
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the search product is genuinely good but yeah it's built on top of licensed models, not sure how much moat that gives them long term
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same could be said about a lot of AI wrapper startups tbh, execution speed counts for something
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curious if their hiring has slowed down at all given how much attention they get
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friend who works there says the ranking and retrieval pipeline is actually pretty custom, not just prompt engineering
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that's good to hear, the UI alone wouldn't be enough to survive Google shipping something similar
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moat or not, the funding rounds keep coming so investors clearly think there's something there
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