Learn 80% of Perplexity in under 10 minutes!
About this video
Su positions Perplexity on a spectrum between creative chatbots and search, recommending it when confidence and real-time accuracy matter more than imagination. He covers setup first: opt out of training data while keeping library history, ignore claims that Pro unlocks other paid tools since fine-tuning differs by product, and write a profile self-introduction that acts like custom instructions across all chats. In use, the Focus feature narrows sources — web for news, academic for health questions, social or video for how-tos — and attachments on the free tier are limited to PDFs, with an image-to-PDF workaround. A side-by-side Olympics query shows Perplexity answering directly with cited sources where Google required opening several links. His favourite feature is Collections: grouped threads that share one AI prompt, such as a travel-agent persona for a Japan trip or a consulting-style SCQA outline generator, giving custom-GPT-like behaviour with sources attached. He is candid that ChatGPT and Gemini beat Perplexity for creative brainstorming, and notes Pro mainly raises Pro Search limits and unlocks model choice and image generation.
Key takeaways
- Use Perplexity for accurate, real-time, cited answers; chatbots for creative work
- Set a profile introduction once; it shapes every conversation like custom instructions
- Use Focus to limit sources — web, academic, social or video — per question
- Collections give a group of threads one shared prompt and memory
- Pro mainly buys more Pro Searches and model choice; free suits most users
Episode details: published September 17, 2024 · 9:52 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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