Perplexity with Deepseek R1 (they have the real thing running on Amazon servers in USA) is a game changer, it doesn’t just use top results from a Google search, it considers what domains to search for information relevant to your prompt.

I boycotted ai for about a year considering it to be mostly garbage but I’m back to perplexifying basically everything I need an answer fo

(That said, I agree with you they’re not really citations, but I don’t think they’re trying to be academic, it’s just, here’s the source of the info)