I have a 20 dollar per month subscription to Perplexity Pro. I can ask it about various topics and it provides me accurate and well sourced information with citations. I have access to hundreds of these searches per day.
To me Perplexity Pro is clearly winning in terms of quality when I use it for this purpose. I have tried the 20 dollars Chatgpt and the 20 dollars google gemini as well. Chatgpt is pretty good and Google Gemini is pretty bad even with the 20 dollars a month but Perplexity Pro is by far the best AI for me. It's gotten even better with the recent Deepseek integration that they have done.
Anyway when I compare Perplexity and Chatgpt with the things coming out of the Big Tech companies I can't help but shake my head. Hasn't Amazon spent billions and billions on Alexa? Even then Amazon is clearly behind...