I use perplexity a lot and pretty much exclusively with "deep research" on. Is this on the same level? Because Perplexity often take more than a minute, and this is only 20 secs.
For most queries it is around the same level. Time spent isn't always the best tell of quality, particularly when the search engine used returns little noise
I don't think the reasoning level is what makes it for me. I am treating this as a search engine. I want the thing to fetch/read from index as many pages as possible. Either that or as many agentic tool calls as needed. That takes time.
An employee above said they’re using cerebas so time may not be a good measure of thinking effort here
A query I ran earlier ran for about 70s, and did 12 web searches and 2 site fetches.