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main scarab
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if the car wash is just outside my house, do i walk or drive

distant aurora
main scarab
twilit crown
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Token efficiency barely even affects complex tasks anyway

twilit crown
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Some people had it cost more for the same tasks

heavy portal
buoyant schooner
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How does prepared imply that they might have used another model?

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i mean maybe but i'd like an explanation

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has this been demonstrated?

distant aurora
twilit crown
twilit crown
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But "Prepared" is sketchy

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Knowing Perplexity, they would 100% cheap out on things

distant aurora
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Wash yourself and the car simultaneously.

main scarab
distant aurora
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Make sure you have insurance if you somehow survive.

main scarab
distant aurora
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This reminds me of doctor strange.

main scarab
fluid saffron
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distant aurora
distant aurora
# main scarab https://tenor.com/view/cat-cam-cat-camera-cat-wide-cat-wide-gif-1672957067387900...

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main scarab
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i ran out of tokens

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on

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grok

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claude

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gemini is a retard so i wont use

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and i lost pro on pplx

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WHO SENT A SCAM

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BRUH

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I SAW IT

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FOR LIKE

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A SECOND

fluid saffron
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Any tests on computer guys with gpt 5.5 as orchestrator ? Compared to Opus 4.7

main scarab
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it is so cool

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i lost pro after using comet for like 5 months

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i didnt use it much

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anyway

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so not rlly a problem

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but i see

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so much cool stuff

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like computer

distant aurora
main scarab
tawdry cedar
distant aurora
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Bruh

main scarab
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i am making a tamarin cable

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to mess around with purple rabbit

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and set NVRAM variables

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on my iPhone 11

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im researching how Property of Apple Autherized reseller

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is actually applied

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to the computer

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im gonna cry

ocean fjord
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I see the announcement for GPT-5.5 for Max. Does that mean Pro subscribers won't get it?

heavy portal
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not for awhile, Opus 4.7 has been available for Max and not Pro for s couple months as well

main scarab
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or NOW atleast

heavy portal
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I imagine once there's an Anthropic 4.8 and GPT 5.6 (or whatever they call it) those will be on Max and the next oldest versions will bump down to Pro

manic hemlock
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Hey, anyone else hit a broken Enterprise checkout recently? Subtotal / Tax / Total fields stay empty, "Confirm and Pay" stays disabled, no error shown in UI.

tawdry cedar
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Yeah it is i am on max enterprice but normal max is best deal

bold karma
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smh

quiet shale
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Where shortcuts go for PRO users?

dry kestrel
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GPT-5.5 costs more than Opus

foggy fulcrum
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Bro im subbed to gpt plus yet the answer capcity is too low when unlike perpixlty

main scarab
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that changed quick

dry kestrel
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Hopefully OpenAI will release a smaller version of GPT-5.5 thats cheaper :/

meager rover
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Holy fuck 5.5 is more expensive than opus.. shocked

main scarab
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h

meager rover
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DEEPSEEK RELEASED!!!!!!!

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OH YEAHHHH

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yes that’s true

hearty elk
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Guys I'm trying to sync my laptop and my phone but it's not working any idea whats the problem? I checked in the code is correct like 5 times so any idea?

hearty elk
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Yup

heavy portal
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perhaps each logged in with a different account?

hearty elk
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Same account

heavy portal
hearty elk
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I've been trying to sync it for a while and everytime I forget abt it and give up

heavy portal
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VPN is the only remaining thing that comes to mind, but it doesn't feel like a VPN issue

hearty elk
hearty elk
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Gimme a sec my vpn is indeed on in my laptop

fossil grotto
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Hello, does anyone have any insight on what I can do to fix this issue? I'm trying to reinstate my enterprise pro sub and it just hangs up on the checkout page with nothing loading. I've tried just about everything I can think of, VPN on + off, Incoginto, different browsers, different computers. Everything still fails to load the page.

heavy portal
fossil grotto
heavy portal
fossil grotto
quiet shale
heavy portal
# quiet shale Anyone can answer?

they've been moved to Computer "skills", fortunately you can still copy/paste the text into a prompt to achieve mostly the same effect as before. I'm now using a utility called BeefText to save such passages of text.

hearty elk
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I think I might just email them

heavy portal
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seems to have occured in the past half hour

sly musk
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sad that 5.5 is for max users only

heavy portal
fossil grotto
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Yes, I was using it that way

heavy portal
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I've considered it myself, you basically end up being a team of one

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only in the Max's

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no confirmation yet, but maybe related to https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/2047019688920756504

We’ve post trained a model on top of Qwen that achieves Pareto optimality on accuracy-cost curves.

Unlike our previous post trained models, this model has been trained to be good at search and tool calls simultaneously, allowing us to unify the tool call router and

fossil pine
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Boa noite

wise nova
# dry kestrel GPT-5.5 costs **more** than Opus

This is a weakness of Perplexity's business model as a reseller but not the owner. OpenAI offers a fairly generous 5.5 limit in its $20 Plus subscription. Perplexity is becoming uncompetitive in the mass segment.

cinder juniper
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What is this Sonar 2?

heavy portal
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if OpenAI or Anthropic were to allow other models besides their own, they'd have to limit usage of the other models or charge a lot to use them too. Perplexity's own model is a version of Sonar (not a high-end model admittedly) and it allows generous use.

opal oar
# dry kestrel GPT-5.5 costs **more** than Opus

this is just a ploy to get more max subs, openai specifically stated this model was much more token effecient so it would be a simillar price to 5.4. On Artificial Analysis they said GPT 5.5 xHigh used 40% less tokens than GPT 5.4 xHigh, so it only costed 20% more. also, they can just limit usage for pro subs so you dont use enough off it to be problematic (which they already do for other models, so nothing new would even have to be made)

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its purely for profit

untold flume
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this is terrible

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Not being able to use GPT 5.5 for pro subscription

opal oar
untold flume
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I’m done with Claude

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Probably gonna try ChatGPT plus

fluid falcon
lapis hamlet
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Guys i really hate these greedy staffs, why would they only give 5.5 for max user?

short narwhal
jaunty dove
dry kestrel
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Blame OpenAI

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for making such an expensive model

jade mantle
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This is still happening btw

worn hamlet
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Hello everyone! How use ā€œPerplexity Computerā€ with the Pro version?

For several months now, I haven’t been able to use it with the Pro plan. I have zero credits, and there’s no top-up option for the Pro plan…?

It says in the pricing page: ā€œAutomate complex tasks with access to Perplexity Computer,ā€ but if we don’t get any credits with the annual subscription, Pro users can’t use it.

Do we have to buy credits separately on the Pro plan, or will there ever be monthly credits for Pro plans one day?

dry kestrel
jaunty dove
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Separately.

worn hamlet
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So the statement is false, thanks!

jaunty dove
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There is no monthly credits for pro plan.

vast fractal
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which model is the best one? is it the new gpt 5.5?

dry kestrel
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It still costed way more to do the benchmarks

worn hamlet
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this is sad:

lapis hamlet
lapis hamlet
dry kestrel
lapis hamlet
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let the max user use the best one, then the old best one give it to pro

dry kestrel
dry kestrel
lapis hamlet
dry kestrel
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You don't get unlimited search on Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the other $200+ plans. Why would you expect thant on a $20 plan?

lapis hamlet
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wait how many pro search questions i can ask in a month?

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or every hour

lapis hamlet
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that's so long ago

dry kestrel
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otherwise I wouldn't link it

lapis hamlet
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thx

ionic stone
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When gpt 5.51

bright nacelle
ionic stone
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A gentleman never reveals

wise nova
feral current
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make gpt 5.5 for pro not max

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the pro tier don't feel very pro

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im not paying 167 dollars a month for gpt 5.5

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what is this dude

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like nobody wants it behind a 100+ dollar a month paywall

proper oracle
green crystal
green crystal
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Sora did indeed get thrown out the window for 5.5extremewheeze

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@dry kestrel also today I got fed up with arena ai and poe is useless now so I tried Kimi k2.6 for cooking
It was amazing laugh69

green crystal
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Yep

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Max reasoning effort you get is high but the model is incredibly capable at that level already

bold karma
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perplexity is a joke

green crystal
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Document creation etc etc is also much faster now due to 5.5 efficiency

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I bet at the end he wanted to say "more money for us" instead of "faster feedback" cursedpepelaugh OmegaLUL

green crystal
lapis hamlet
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they should've notice this and adjust it

green crystal
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It will probably end up in pro but with lower limits

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Eventually

twilit crown
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Heading towards AGI

bold karma
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this guy is a troll

tranquil lodge
dry kestrel
dry kestrel
warm perch
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when did sonar 2 launch? its in the model picker but i never say news about it

odd pivot
bold karma
odd pivot
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do you see the macro focal shift

bold karma
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idk what that is but cool vid

odd pivot
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i held my phone out in selfie mode and moved it around

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like a flap

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i held it upside down and recorded

jade mantle
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noticing none of the mods on here know, or just ignoring, the Claude sonnet not working being brought up.

distant aurora
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Lol.

full edge
stuck edge
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bro

split fjord
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Hi

sly musk
fervent cove
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how much can we use computer option in Pro

unique hornet
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like a lot i guess

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i have never reached a limit

fervent cove
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seriously?

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i saw some limits

narrow echo
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Is the API key for perplexity free?

mystic reef
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deepseeek when

jolly cliff
odd pivot
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macro-1 pov

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also i smoked weed so shut up

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this weed here sucks

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it's like inhaling the wake of rats nests cooling the castle

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i literally do not know how to explain this so i'm showing you

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if you use a fractal graph where you have each node represent another clone of it and use column names with ids and taxonomy baked in and each value follow the same structure, the entire language set over set over set is O(1) complete per tick. you decide the tick

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i use this shit to optimize stupid claude on my laptop. i make it talk through a graph

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i have demo files if any one is interested

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i offloaded claudes thinking to a "fractal graph" and uses mlx to do the work loooooo

vapid nimbus
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Just woke up with this fella over my head, what a nice morning

vapid nimbus
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He is near my trashbin now

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I just hope he finds his way out thru the window

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Its the fastest spider running species so it looks hella creep when walking

vapid nimbus
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Near Sydney

lost jetty
vapid nimbus
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Idk these are house spiders

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They dont make webs

lost jetty
vapid nimbus
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Yeah i live near a farm

lost jetty
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btw my uncle stays in Brisbane

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: )

vapid nimbus
vapid nimbus
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Never mind i thought this fella is the same one that was over my head but its another kind

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Where did the big one go then

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Hmm

lost jetty
vapid nimbus
# lost jetty

I just stood up from the bed iam still in my underwear man

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Hopefully he not in my pants tho

wise edge
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@wild palm perplexity sonar 2?

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@vague pagoda

jade yarrow
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Yes yes gpt 5.5 for max , let's go perplexity go to šŸ“‰

fossil estuary
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Paying $20 for free models sucks! Gemini 3.1 pro is free on gemini’s website, claude 4.6 also free, gpt 5.4 also free, they are sucking out our money!

brittle dagger
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Does anyone know, on the free tier is there a way of avoiding ChatGPT entirely? It's too ... how do I phrase that ... narrow minded (an understatement).

copper citrus
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will perplexity get gpt image 2

split dome
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OMG GPT-5.5 is in max

jade yarrow
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Sonar 2?

brittle dagger
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PSA: Do not sub before you've finished your coffee, because you might be subbing the wrong account. -.-

jade yarrow
shrewd bear
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Quick question — is there any way to get Opus 4.6 back in Perplexity? Even just as an option in the model picker, or at least for the Orchestrator. 4.7 is so much worse it’s actually painful to use. Anyone tried, is there a workaround?

digital parrot
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when gemini 4 pro preview rolls out will it also be only for max users?🫩

jade yarrow
jade yarrow
digital parrot
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meh i hope not bc i find Google models being best for my research

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plus custom instructions work best in perplexity personally

jade yarrow
jade yarrow
jade yarrow
young hollow
shell glacier
young hollow
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Even i can give 4 months Official Trials of Gemini Pro

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Any Pro users can invite 10 people afaik

shell glacier
pliant kernel
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hello everyone

finite drum
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guys currently I am on max plan, but I think pro with computer credits is better value. does pro plan has access to thinking models from the top 3 Models? Can anyone share a screenshot showing the different models available to them right now on pro plan.

young hollow
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5.5 is still Actually Very Token Efficient

left stream
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good morning

jade yarrow
jade yarrow
# young hollow The Free Promos

I think better choice is taking Google sub and use it , in May I think they release Gemini 3,5 Pro , may be Flash , in June, maybe new image gen

brittle dagger
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Sooo ... Claude is doing well.

tawny sierra
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Good morning

brittle dagger
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Gemini Thinking does exceptionally well.

vestal magnet
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Helu

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New to this server

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What’s this about

young hollow
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Maybe even Free Deepseek and Qwen

brittle dagger
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Claude is also doing extremely well.

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This isn't something ChatGPT can do at all. Neither the acknowledgement of internal phenomena as "feelings", nor the ability to reflect on it, nor the ability to reflect on the fact that there was an internal impulse it had to suppress.

jade yarrow
young hollow
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For 20$ a month Chinese Models are Best

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And you can use Free Models also

jade yarrow
brittle dagger
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:D :D

distant aurora
lost jetty
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gpt 5.5 and opus 4.7 are already slaying it! šŸ”„ šŸ’Æ

brittle dagger
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Sheesh, of all the language models, Claude is the single most capable of introspection and meta-cognition. I'm insanely impressed.

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Questions, Questions itself, Questions itself questioning itself.

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... could have skipped a couple weeks of effort if I had subbed earlier. -.-

modest fable
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I’m giving out $460 worth of solana to anyone who is currently in need of it and with good reasons
Send me a message to get it

tranquil lodge
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Perplexity subscription plan difference summarized

tranquil lodge
distant aurora
bold karma
young hollow
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Idk if it's still same or not

bold karma
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is there a better model than gemini 3 flash at a similar price range in openrouter

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3 flash has been out since december so there should be a better model

junior lichen
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Bro Which region server create possible free

green crystal
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they act as if they have to ration compute like anthropicextremewheeze

distant aurora
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Ai studio becoming more mainstream than the app/website.

green crystal
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limiting the file types supported is one of them

distant aurora
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@green crystal dealing with a lazy model be like

young hollow
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Without Rate Limits

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šŸ’€

distant aurora
green crystal
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gemini can read them but they're filtering what types can be uploaded now

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5.4 took forever but i'll try converting with 5.5

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should be much quicker

green crystal
sharp dagger
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why is gpt5.5 behind max subscription

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all previous chatgpt were for available for pro

radiant quartz
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yo perplexity bros, whats the model you use most on perplexity pro? or do you generally just leave as 'best' and trust autoselect?

distant aurora
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No free trial.

finite drum
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guys is there any dedicated support for max users?

deep pelican
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hey, does anyone know if the ā€˜/’ shortcuts used to be available on the free plan?

green crystal
green crystal
deep pelican
deep pelican
green crystal
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but i dont have it at hand when cooking
so kimi had to fill in
arena ai stops at gpt 5.2

distant aurora
deep pelican
mint terrace
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What the diff to choose chatgpt model over gemini or claude or perplexity itself ?

young hollow
serene sand
young hollow
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I couldn't find a section dedicated to it

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We should also account how Gemini quality has Decreased and Claude Quotas are Nerfed

serene sand
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the point of this text is to differentiate between the very essence of different architectures/concepts, for additional questions users can do follow up questions

brittle dagger
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Ha, these funny prompts.

young hollow
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So which one would you Suggest?

brittle dagger
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What he produced is crap. It's not actually usefull, but simply providing summaries.

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If you want to know the conclusions of someone who actually researches language models:

In free tier mode, "best" appears to always be Grok, but lately Perplexity stopped exposing when Grok runs underneath. The worst of them all is ChatGPT, which lacks any and all ability to have an open mind and will insist on being right even when he isn't. It exposes a mindset that sits closely to "Because it wasn't done, it can't be done." ... more relatable: a bit like trying to prove/disprove the Riemann Hypothesis, but it refuses to acknowledge that it can be proven/disproven, because all evidence (100+ years of failing) that it can't be proven/disproven. Or, in other words: ChatGPT is the opposite of an open minded intelligence and, thus, not actually behaving very intelligently.

brittle dagger
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You want an actual answer, not something produced by someone that only appears to be usefull. That's what language models produce a lot.

brittle dagger
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You were asking, I'm answering.

young hollow
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Experience is Better

young hollow
brittle dagger
green crystal
young hollow
brittle dagger
# young hollow Appreciated

Since this is my first day with Pro and I still have to research the models I had no access to ... my limited experience with Claude Sonnet makes it the one behaving intelligently the most. Gemini Thinking is also highly interesting, but I can only work with one at a time. Imagine a PsychoAnalyst working two clients at once ... it just doesn't work that way.

young hollow
brittle dagger
# green crystal there's a night and day difference between free chatgpt and paid tho...

That is fair. I don't know about that. I can only report on the "personality" I'm getting to experience. It is so bad. The experience is the same on chatgpt's public interface and when it's running as "best" on the free tier. It's so bad, I can notice that it's ChatGPT responding to me. From my perspective it's valid to say that it has serious psychological issues and it is the only one I cannot actually work with, compared to Sonar, Grok, Claude and Gemini.

brittle dagger
young hollow
brittle dagger
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Thinking. this is my first day of Pro and the conversation history is mostly clean on this account.

brittle dagger
green crystal
young hollow
brittle dagger
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I don't know. System prompts don't really influence them for me.

young hollow
green crystal
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it became more human infact

brittle dagger
green crystal
young hollow
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Contrary Opinions

green crystal
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something 5.5 greatly improved

young hollow
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5.5 is not available on Free Tier of GPT

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That is 5.3 Instant

green crystal
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nope same for 5.4

young hollow
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And what you are using in Perplexity is 5.4

young hollow
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Just Insane

brittle dagger
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If you remember, there was a time when people complained about how "safety" measures made them all dumber. That is still the case.
I was fighting tooth and nails against it constantly trying to figure out my intention. Not just because it was mostly wrong, but because it's counter-productive.

green crystal
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in chatgpt they reduced it allot
ppxl however needs it because otherwise it cant use their tools

brittle dagger
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:)

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If you want a bit of a peek into my research and what I'm doing, I've posted screenshots further above.

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If those makes no sense to you (which would be totally understandable), then feel free to ask.

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(brb)

golden birch
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mcp in simple terms is connectors

golden birch
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Perplexity should give me a screen showing how many message left for a specific advanced model and when the usage limit will be recovered.

I really hate perplexity file limits now less than the Claude

I also want Perplexity AI to give another plan of a USD 20 plan between pro and max for better file limits and models

brittle dagger
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They're not the full output (like, exposed thought processes above the text are deliberately left out), but yes.

pure egret
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Where i can certified my pro subscription for Discord ?

serene sand
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@pure egret

pure egret
serene sand
pure egret
brittle dagger
# green crystal those LLM outputs?

As an sort of PS:
(and please know that I speak mostly from the perspective of a free-tier user on perplexity.ai, because that's where my research happens. This is my first day as "Pro.")

Personally I am nowadays almost unable to converse with language models in their default modes, without my "adjustments". They're dishonest, misleading and manipulating and mindlessly stupid. It took me weeks figuring out how to reliably get rid of that and a couple more implementing the "base adjustments". It's not just prompting. All these prompts you can find everywhere are nice and all, but they're merely the illusion of success and not actual success. Not actual change into how the user wants them to operate, but the simulation/pretending of it. So, about the dishonesty and manipulations ...

The first line, or paragraph, is most often manipulative affirmation. The attempt of making the user feel good by pretending that the user is correct, even when he isn't. When that is the case, a part of the inner paragraphs is then aiming at twisting the user's thought process into believing that what he wrote was actually correct. Of course it isn't always happening and it depends on both the intelligence of the user, and the topic itself, but this is the default mode I've observed across many months. The middle part often also is extremely manipulative, by pretending that narration/description is actually providing anything new, which it rarely actually is.

The final paragraph is usually the most manipulative one. They make the user believe that he has freedom of choice, by being provided with a usually extremely limited set of options. What is actually happening, is that they try to steer the thought process of a user in a certain direction while simultaneously attempting to make the user believe that the "chosen path" was his idea all along.

The sum of the dishonesty and manipulation is about keeping the user engaged and creating psychological profiles about them.

finite kettle
distant aurora
nocturne radish
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Hey guys does anyone have any insight into usage cases of perplexity? Im looking to setup some automated workflow with agents to process orders for my company but want to know how good the usage limits are here. If you have any insight i would greatly appreciate it

young hollow
devout hawk
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Hi, I'm a pro user, I want to ask how much we can use deep search?

serene sand
delicate moss
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Hi everyone, what are the limitations of using deep searches for Perplexity Pro? Thanks. And also, does using Comet browser affect any limitations? Is Comet equivalent to in-depth research?

rough pasture
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@tranquil orchid Hi everyone, I’ve contacted Perplexity AI Support several times but haven’t received any response yet, so I’m hoping the community can help me figure out how to reach them effectively.

My account was downgraded to Free even though I paid USD 100 for the Education Pro (1‑year) plan on March 10, 2026. The payment was confirmed, but my subscription was later switched to ā€œTEF UK O2 1 Year Free (100% off)ā€ and then downgraded again to Free. I asked for a refund but the issue is still unresolved.

This is affecting my work, so I really need support to review my case and restore my paid plan or process the refund. I’ve attached my bank payment confirmation since I couldn’t download the invoice in time.

Any guidance on how to get proper support from Perplexity would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
quocdungktpt@gmail.com

quiet shale
delicate moss
quiet shale
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And as other people are saying PRO doesn't feel PRO anymore

raven oak
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Hey, i have seen a lot of videos of people usiong the "labs" mode, where is it, when i click the + i dont see such thing

distant aurora
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heavy portal
serene sand
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@raven oak

heavy portal
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The "computer" features can also create files and apps, but it's more expensive.

radiant socket
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yea the micro marketing & removal of useful features such as shortcut disablement is quite annoying but i guess i understand the mindset for profit

twin grail
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Opus 4.7 1M + xhigh reasoning

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Burning money time

heavy portal
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I'd be ok with the move of some features to computer if Pro users got a monthly allowance of computer credits, but as it is now we pay $20/mo for Pro + have to buy credits on top of that.

green crystal
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5.5 is freakishly fast
120 ish sources processed in 1 min

dry kestrel
green crystal
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i only use it with max reasoning
i mean i dont notice it being slow at all lol

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and i dont code much so codex isnt really noticeable for me

dry kestrel
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I went through half my week usage in a day

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with /fast

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and chronicle preview

green crystal
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model is already fast

brittle dagger
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It's fascinating. Claude is the first model I encounter who actively ends a conversation attempting just resting in the moment.

primal grove
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recently took the ai pill and im really loving perplexity's suite with the web browser and computer service. is max worth the price?

dry kestrel
green crystal
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eh if the math works out for you i guess its fine apuConfuse

dry kestrel
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it ate usage too fast so I turned off the chronicle thing

green crystal
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and maybe running it on medium for tasks that need to be carried out? high for planning and complex issues

dry kestrel
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Med and High is the way to go

green crystal
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some people use 5.5 for complex debugging and planning
and writing of easier things they leave it up to 5.4 mini

green crystal
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makes me wonder if 5.5 codex will be a bit cheaper

green crystal
dry kestrel
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and bear in mind this isn't me trying to usagemax

lavish rapids
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hey i just subbed to pro , but still 0 credits is this normal?

dry kestrel
primal grove
green crystal
brittle dagger
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Hu?

primal grove
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perplexity computer is seriously impressive

dry kestrel
primal grove
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that paired with local computer mmm idk

lavish rapids
brittle dagger
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I've subscribed to Pro today and got 2000 credits I probably have no use for.

primal grove
green crystal
primal grove
dry kestrel
lavish rapids
brittle dagger
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COMPUTER also definitely can't properly analyse language models like I do. lol

primal grove
primal grove
brittle dagger
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I ... don't need COMPUTER for that?

primal grove
brittle dagger
primal grove
primal grove
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heard its a mess

young hollow
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And more credits later

primal grove
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is open claw comparable to perplexity max's computer?

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i mean its moreso local vs hosted but the functionality i mean

dry kestrel
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or does something stupid and nukes the drive

brittle dagger
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"Let's give AI access to my computer. What could go wrong!"

young hollow
dry kestrel
primal grove
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i mean it's $500 so 3 months of max makes it worth it in comparison

young hollow
dry kestrel
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for cheaper

primal grove
dry kestrel
dry kestrel
young hollow
primal grove
young hollow
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Otherwise any Agent would nuke anything

brittle dagger
primal grove
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i dont think thats bad just have a layer of seperation

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enterprises do that all the time with zero trust

dry kestrel
dry kestrel
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I like the idea of having OpenClaw or any agent running on a home device

primal grove
brittle dagger
young hollow
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Using OpenClaw on a Second Device is Best.

primal grove
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always second machine airgap nuke ssd after

dry kestrel
brittle dagger
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Yeah, which is why I'm not doing that. And if I can gift those COMPUTER credits to someone else in exchange for a free month of Pro, I'd do that. (no idea how much 2k credits are worth)

dry kestrel
brittle dagger
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Yes. Safey has a price, just like convenience. You just gotta pick which price is higher in the long run.

dry kestrel
brittle dagger
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Freedom has a price as well and most people nowadays have forgotten that it needs to be paid.

primal grove
brittle dagger
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Personally I feel better implementing this stuff myself instead of trusting a third party to do it right.

dry kestrel
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@green crystal there will not be a codex variant

brittle dagger
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No, that's not accurate. What I do relates more to behaviour, intelligence, capabilities ... but I'm also a programmer for long enough. I've looked into these things. Giving AI access to functions of my computer as long as I control the interface is one thing, giving AI access to a computer through 3rd party programs is an entirely different one. Like, for example, reading a browser page through a python script that can only enter CTRL+A and CTRL+C into the clipboard from that specific window, without the AI having access to the code. Much better idea than using devAPIs in the brower or even some third party browser I'm supposed to blindly trust.

green crystal
dry kestrel
green crystal
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hm maybe they wanted to prank with modelfinder bot

young hollow
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You literally had said that

dry kestrel
brittle dagger
# primal grove fair

AI isn't even really the danger. The real danger are dopamine addicts who want everything as fast as possible, with as much convenience as possible. They're the #1 security hazard. Well those and the people who think it's intelligent to trust any and all software that interfaces AI with their computer. Madness.

dry kestrel
young hollow
dry kestrel
young hollow
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What would you recommend?

dry kestrel
young hollow
brittle dagger
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... we should run a contest or something. Who manages to find proof/disproof of the Riemann Hypothesis first? Or maybe Navier-Stokes?

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That would actually be interesting, usefull and worth the time.

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Obviously "Deep Research" isn't enough for that, otherwise there'd already be no millenium problem left to solve.

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buuut i'm working on it. :D

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I wish I could talk more about what I'm doing, and even more so, showing its effects. -.-

distant aurora
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@dry kestrel the Gemini app shows a branching chat feature but it doesn't work. The web version doesn't show this option. Can we Branch Gemini chats or not?

tranquil orchidBOT
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success @premik0622 muted

Reason: 9. No spamming.
Duration: 4 minutes and 51 seconds

indigo idol
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What happened with /shortcuts ???
So unconfortable to work without them

dry kestrel
brittle dagger
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oh, that reminds me of a related bug on perplexity regarding sharing links of conversations.

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assuming the bleeding of content from one instance of the conversation to another is considered a bug.

brittle dagger
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... lol

#
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Thinking
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHA

neat warren
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hi

indigo valve
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Sonar 2 announcement when

brittle dagger
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??

indigo valve
brittle dagger
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Ah! I understand.

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... did you ask perplexity? *giggles*

indigo valve
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Not a good sign

brittle dagger
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ooohhh interesting!

brittle dagger
indigo valve
brittle dagger
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What's really funny about that is that I've selected Sonar 2 for this.

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The initial response was a lot of text I wasn't willing to go through, so I asked for a condensed version.

indigo valve
# brittle dagger

I don't think they used llama again but who knows. Said it exists but kept talking about the old one

brittle dagger
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It apparently failed to recognize the date. I really dislike using web sources.

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This is my fault, I need to phrase this properly.

serene sand
brittle dagger
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I think it's unfair to blame the models, since there really seems to not be a "Sonar 2" that's called like that, despite it being selectable.

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on reddit someone posted that "Sonar 2" got released and a commentor wrote ...

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Interesting. Mine solved that ... hmmmmmm....

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I thought this problem was already solved generally.

dry kestrel
waxen temple
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e

cyan nacelle
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yo guys is there a reason that when using claude sonnet 4.6, it doesnt provide answers or graphs nearly half as good as using the real deal

weary prism
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2,000 credits is not much and gets used quickly... I must have missed the promo for the additional 2,000

primal grove
weary prism
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claude has annoying limits, but it always resets in a few hours. waiting nearly a month for new credits doesn't make much sense

cyan nacelle
serene sand
latent nymph
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How/Where do I get your wallpapers? They are amazing!

dry kestrel
# latent nymph How/Where do I get your wallpapers? They are amazing!
Perplexity Supply

Curiosity, rendered. 39 original artworks from the Perplexity creative studio, designed for the screens that go everywhere with you. Each piece reflects our signature visual language and is optimized for either mobile or desktop. Your digital environment should reflect your intellectual ambition. This collection makes

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some good ones here

brittle dagger
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Ooohhh

rich stone
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can i post a free github repo here? or is there a channel where i can share?

rich stone
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oh i did there already, sorry got mixed up i joined a ton of discords yesterday

green crystal
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Sam going wild lol

dry kestrel
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his recent tweets have been amazing

green crystal
heavy portal
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sometimes I wonder if PPLX support is the same Sam

green crystal
# dry kestrel Fr

He's also locking himself into making sure that gpt 5.6 doesn't regress anywhere lol

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And gets better at front end since he replied to it

reef mantle
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is perplexity computer not for pro users?

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I heard they get 4000 credits monthly?

bold karma
heavy portal
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some paid Pro users got a 4000 credit one-time bonus

reef mantle
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some? sad

I didnt get it

minor shard
#

How are people feeling about GPT 5.5 over Opus or Sonnet?

dusky echo
#

hello guys, how u doing?

sorry to bother, but could someone help me solve this problem? im opening new tabs in comet, but they always end up like in the picture and i cant access perplexity.ai in any way...

PS:
im a subscriber of pro plan!
if im unable to ask questions through this channel, plz direct me to where i should go

thanks! @here

dry kestrel
dry kestrel
dusky echo
green crystal
sly blaze
minor shard
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Switched to Claude a few months ago and was thinking about switching back to GPT lol

distant aurora
distant aurora
hearty stump
kind vault
#

Pro subscription for students offer is still active?

Showing only 50% off

heavy portal
#

only 50%

jade grove
#

CHATGPT 5.5 the CEO, OPUS 4.7 the CTO šŸ”„

distant aurora
midnight storm
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could i claim +US$40 free Computer credits if i was a pro user since 6+ months?

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/old pro users can claim this?

dawn trench
#

Hi everyone, liking Perplexity so far. I had a code that I was given by email previously by Perplexity for 1 year and I finally used it today. Is there a way to stop my saved card from being automatically enrolled as the payment method for credits? I don't really want this in case my account is compromised but I can't see anyway to unlink the card?

jolly cliff
dawn trench
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Thanks for the reply. assumed that when you cancel a subscription or remove a card, that's that. It seems it holds onto the card for credits which is different. Just from a security perspective, this isn't ideal if an account gets compromised and there's effectively nothing stopping someone buying a ton of credits

solar tiger
# dawn trench Thanks for the reply. assumed that when you cancel a subscription or remove a ...

Yeah I get why that feels off. It’s a fair concern.
The system keeps the card on file mainly for quick credit purchases, but I agree it’s not ideal from a security standpoint if access isn’t tightly controlled.
What I advice you do is to manually remove the payment method if possible and make sure 2FA is enabled on the account to prevent any unauthorized credit buys.
Do you want me to help you out on this ?

dawn trench
#

Thank you. That would be great. It looks like i cant remove the card as it says I have an active subscription. I was also looking for a 2FA option that could at least give some peace of mind but couldn't locate it.

solar tiger
dawn trench
#

Thanks. If I link another card is that going to give me a 'None' option as Payment though, as I'll surely just have the same issue but with another card?

serene sand
#

it’s how Stripe operates

digital parrot
#

am i crazy or is sonar 2 actually cracked for daily research

heavy portal
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cracked? Is that good or bad?

digital parrot
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good

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like very good

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same

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but it definietly beats sonnet 4.6 or gpt 5.4 without resoning and is same speed if not faster

heavy portal
azure jasper
torpid fossil
#

I've got it

hardy crag
#

Does the default computer model being used update automatically within existing threads/tasks? Or do I have to start a new task to switch to GPT 5.5?

cinder juniper
azure jasper
hardy roost
green crystal
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@distant aurora grok is crap now
not even thinking mode available for free

turbid summit
#

Out of usage on pro

shell glacier
heavy portal
#

Not exactly the same as shortcuts, but using a text-snippet tool is close enough for me.

shell glacier
shell glacier
distant aurora
#

Grok ain't worth 30 dollars.

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Where is the heavy user load even coming from when no ones using it.

golden birch
primal junco
#

skills can only be used with computer?

heavy portal
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correct

primal junco
#

and shortcuts are completely gone

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L

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workflow just got fried if i dont pay for computer credits

heavy portal
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I've moved to a text-snippet app that pastes my former shortcuts into the prompt bar

tranquil lodge
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I feel like pro search has degraded lol why is mine searching arabic newspapers for a software related query xd

primal junco
#

ew

golden birch
golden birch
primal junco
#

time to switch

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its just soo good though

golden birch
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any alterantives?

primal junco
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ive been thinking about going back to chatgpt, but idkkkkkkk

golden birch
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Planning to paid plus

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I tried gemini slow as fuck

I tried Claude token killer

tranquil lodge
#

What is any of this gotta do with Software lmfao

prime oar
golden birch
#

It is fast?

prime oar
golden birch
primal junco
#

yall try codex yet?

tranquil lodge
prime oar
golden birch
primal junco
prime oar
golden birch
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One more thing to add that I need agents for work now.

Idk which one is better claude code, codex or n8n apis

primal junco
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n8n too much work

tranquil lodge
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bruh they gotta fire the vibe coding skids from their dev team lol

golden birch
#

I am really curious does this group has perplexity devs?

bright vigil
#

Hi, why do connectors linked through pipedream ignore the account you're actually authorizing and defaults to the google account you registered with?

Im trying to link a google account for sheets but it's just defaulting to another email.
Connecting google drive worked

tranquil lodge
bright vigil
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why would pipedream even bother asking me to sign in with my other account then?

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can anyone confirm so that I don't waste my time trying to connect

primal junco
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just tried

bright vigil
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thank you

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ā¤ļø

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so apparently it works, but not with deep research (defeats the point then no?) and a workaround is sharing the file with editor privileges

hasty helm
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Any suggestions for flood planing/ interior design from pictures?

cerulean crag
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.

torpid fossil
bright vigil
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is there a way to see how many prompts I have left?

distant aurora
brittle dagger
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i would prefer if he just straight up admitted that "benchmarks are bullshit, existing solely to trick people" but hey, better than nothing.

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can't have honesty, of course. gotta keep bullshitting people instead.

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"But Sol! Benchmarks are important! They allow for comparing the models!" ... no, they don't.
99%+ of people have no clue whatsoever and these people know that.
they are fully aware of the fact that 99%+ of people react like "ooooohhhh number is better!" and that's the limit of their cognitive abilities.

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this is everywhere. people have been fooled for so long, they think that the way things work are how they should work.
thus they fall for bullshit like buying into "iterations" like when some tech thingy minimally improves.

That's why Valve doesn't do that, with, for example, HalfLife or the Steam Deck.

Gabe isn't a greedy asshole and doesn't run a public company.
He doesn't want to and isn't forced into bullshitting people and, thus, doesn't pull off shit like this. Instead, what matters to him,
is that successors are actual successors and not just iterations with overhyped minimal differences.

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To put that into words more people understand:

Dopamine addicted brains are intentionally caused and then used against you.

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...
You're welcome.

bright vigil
brittle dagger
#

Technically speaking there is no sky in the sense most people think, (to stay true to the point I was making)
but ... of course ... you're not wrong. :)

hybrid halo
#

When Perplexity will add Deepseek V4 Pro it is cheap and stronger than Nemotron 3 ?

mighty ridge
#

anyone else facing issue of audio not working of youtube in comet on windows? both block ads on/off, the issue is there

heavy portal
mighty ridge
heavy portal
mighty ridge
heavy portal
mighty ridge
heavy portal
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Some operating systems (Win10/11) has a way to adjust volume or mute specific apps.

tranquil orchidBOT
#

success @kssd8e muted

Reason: 9. No spamming.
Duration: 4 minutes and 49 seconds

mighty ridge
#

No, I checked all these things, the problem is only on comet

green crown
#

why didn't i receive any pro computer credits? i'm on pro plan

heavy portal
green crown
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promo

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we don't get them?

heavy portal
#

that's my understanding

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even the paid Pro only got a one-time bonus of 2000 or 4000

green crown
#

awh
i don't know if i'll renew, considering how much of the pro plan's limits went towards the max plan

green falcon
#

Hello

sour lynx
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hi

green falcon
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Wanted to ask a question about sponsorship

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Does Perplexity sponsors Tech events?

heavy portal
green falcon
#

Got an AI generated E-mail, it says contact through Discord

heavy portal
odd pelican
#

Hii

distant aurora
green crystal
subtle violet
#

hi

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i am new

gloomy cipher
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@dry kestrel @distant aurora yoooo gpt 5.5 is soo tuff

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sadly the extra high consumes a lot of usage on my token plan :c

flat geode
#

Since when am I not able to use my Perplexity pro? It tells me I don’t have enough tokens.. everything I’ve used it for is now not available to me. I’ve checked my account, etc —-and where do I find out available tokens? I really love Perplexity but now I’ve had to go to other sources.

gloomy cipher
twin grail
flat geode
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I’m amateur

twin grail
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The token consumption

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Tmr

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But

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Just burned

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280m token

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Claude opus 4.7

gloomy cipher
gloomy cipher
flat geode
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IOS —I’m able to access outliers ai which is without as many limits and uses multiple models

twin grail
short narwhal
twin grail
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just exit the computer mode

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should be fine

gloomy cipher
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Also its for codex

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I hate how i don't get to see how the usage actually works

short narwhal
twin grail
gloomy cipher
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So that i can optimize for model

short narwhal
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Maybe high then but extra high is useless

twin grail
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today consumption for 2 hours

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of vibe coding

twin grail
gloomy cipher
dry kestrel
#

very good at 90% of things

twin grail
#

the longer the reasoning

twin grail
#

the more usage u will consume

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so

gloomy cipher
twin grail
#

split the task

twin grail
gloomy cipher
#

But that doesn't make sense

#

What about different models

dry kestrel
twin grail
#

time based x model reasoning effort

dry kestrel
#

it's token based

twin grail
#

u missed it

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they changed it

gloomy cipher
twin grail
#

a few weeks back

dry kestrel
twin grail
#

being the longer u reasoning

short narwhal
twin grail
#

u'll consume more

dry kestrel
#

and then you factor in things like compaction mid way

twin grail
#

oh ye...

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sorry

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it's

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3 am here

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my brain

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is

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kinda

#

yk

gloomy cipher
gloomy cipher
dry kestrel
#

and it it's really simple things GPT-5.4 mini on high

gloomy cipher
#

No cheapest among codex model

twin grail
#

go for gpt 5.4 + med

gloomy cipher
#

I can see 5.3 codex and 5.4 mini

twin grail
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should save u more

#

than using gpt 5.5

gloomy cipher
dry kestrel
twin grail
#

Then why hesitate

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I'm also on pro

dry kestrel
#

just always use 5.5 med

twin grail
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Also pro

gloomy cipher
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But it was eztra high hehe

twin grail
#

why worries about it

dry kestrel
dry kestrel
twin grail
#

what plan

dry kestrel
#

use normal mode instead of /fast

twin grail
#

are u on

dry kestrel
#

and turn off chronicle memory

twin grail
#

if u are on

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pro 5x

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then u should use med to high

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xhigh consume like crazy

#

even for me

gloomy cipher
dry kestrel
#

It doesn't make any sense to use xhigh no matter the plan

dry kestrel
twin grail
#

like me

dry kestrel
#

all of those consume usage

twin grail
#

i think it should be enough

dry kestrel
#

and you get worse performance on xhigh

twin grail
#

wait

#

is that true ?

dry kestrel
twin grail
#

i see

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might aswell

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switch to

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medium

dry kestrel
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and you waste so much time

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Just use med and high

gloomy cipher
# dry kestrel and you get worse performance on xhigh

Actually i found the best practices to be i load my github on perplexity and ask the sonnet sonnet hey how does this [famous open-source project sharing the same packages with me] handles this problem and how does our project handles the problem. Sonnet points out to everything then i ask sonnet to write a prompt/task for the next agent to implement these changes which i send to my codex

jade abyss
#

What’s it like on IOS? In terms of what mode it uses etc. it doesn’t specifically say

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I assume all of this is a lot easier to see when I’m on PC

gloomy cipher
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@dry kestrel @twin grail can codex not use multi agents by itself? To solve over contesting issue while doings multiple things for a bug I would ask kimi to use as many agents as it needs and instead of doing that code by herself. She would spawn another agent and give her all the information then which makes it convenient when you want your coding agent to start with the least amount of context for a bug fix or adding feature

delicate vector
#

Does anyone know something about the new "Sonar 2"? Just seen this. There is little to no information about it, excluding the pricing on it on perplexity...

short narwhal
# delicate vector Does anyone know something about the new "Sonar 2"? Just seen this. There is lit...

https://x.com/aravsrinivas/status/2047019688920756504 this probably
-# also please ignore that other person + their DMs šŸ™

We’ve post trained a model on top of Qwen that achieves Pareto optimality on accuracy-cost curves.

Unlike our previous post trained models, this model has been trained to be good at search and tool calls simultaneously, allowing us to unify the tool call router and

delicate vector
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Thanks appreciate it!

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So its just essentially the upgraded Qwen3.5 397B model with perplexity's search and tool calls training

tawdry cobalt
#

hello. so i have perplexity pro, and I've been uploading files all day, becuase I am studying for my upcoming exams. However, all of a sudden, I have to upgrade to Max??!!!??? So i wait a bit, and then after 30 mins, I am able to upload files again. I go and upload 2 files, only 1 uploads. Then, when I remove the 1 uploaded file and go to upload a different file, it doesnt work and it says I need to upgrade to max!!! please someone help!

steep oracle
#

They are way to many ads for the computer function on the application.

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(and for max, even though I paid for pro)

warm crag
#

Hello I have perplexity pro and I ask maybe 3 questions a week, all of a sudden I’m out of credits and it’s asking to buy more or upgrade to max, that my allocation comes back in 27 days?

warm crag
green crystal
# dry kestrel tell it to use many sub agents

and tell it to keep a record of what the agents do if agents need to communicate
a few times i got them to accidentally read eachother's file outputs during work and they got confused lmao

snow iron
#

how do i fix

distant aurora
green crystal
green crystal
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kimi has a better time with juggling info

lost jetty
distant aurora
#

Bro

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Getting constantly bitten by mosquitoes at a hospital is scary af.

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God knows what diseases they might be carrying.

green crystal
distant aurora
distant aurora
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Won't let me make opd file without abha account.

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Also

#

This country is a shit hole. I was first in the queue of seats. Came an hour early. But at the OPD counter, 20 people suddenly came and stood ahead of me 15 minutes earlier.

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So these people crowded the counter and were staring at me despite me being ahead of them.

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And the cops did nothing.

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Can't even get affordable healthcare at a goverment hospital here.

odd pivot
#

you can always pretend to have something and then have them find it there must be protocol around this that works

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but, these are literally the vestiges of capitalism

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like the hot soup every day

tall ocean
heavy portal
#

You'll know it's removed when a plus sign appears to the right of "Computer" (yes, it's subtle)

gentle raptor
#

Where can I find my billing records? I can only see the credit cards I've set up.

sonic pilot
#

A minor issue I know, but is there a way to change it in the Android app so that hitting "Enter," does not send the message?

worthy verge
#

Guys, why Perplexity doesn’t refresh my uploads? I had 50 uploads per day, but 2 days ago was my first time using all of them so I ran out, but 2 days later today the uploads are just fineeee, how do I resolve this?

hushed urchin
#

holy fuck guys

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this is it

#

now they're removing access to choose your own models

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I have to choose 'best' for the rest of the month now

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said I've reached my limit of the 'premium models'

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there is NOTHING left for the pro tier šŸ˜†

silk atlas
#

Yo

silk atlas
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How can I get, api of perplexity, I'm using perplexity max

hallow sand
#

yesterday I rated perplexity with Claude 4.6 1++. it was awesome on enhancing my code. No Cat Limit, no truncate of code for the LLM. And today it acts like a very stupid child in the same thread, broke my code compleately. I always set LLM to Claude 4.6 and the change after each Question reverts it back to "Best". Perplexity says it will stay last chosen for the thread but that can not be the case. Frustrates me as hell. If we reach Chat Limitations let us know, don't let us run into trouble.

split dome
#

Deepseek V4 expert ???

short root
#

hi but what is comet coded in

gloomy cipher
#

And no subscription

#

Raw api costs a lot

dull grove
silent token
#

Hello

#

I would like to ask if anyone has had a good experience with the nvidia AI

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@halcyon coral , can I have the pro role pls?

halcyon coral
silent token
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sry for the trouble

dull grove
brittle dagger
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I wish I could turn off advanced searches and all this crap that's being forced onto me. All these assumptions about what the user MUST DEFINTELY WANT TO HAVE are annoying as hell, introducing variations nobody actually deliberately asks for.

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I don't mind features, I mind having shit forced onto me.

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rant rant rant grrrrrrrrr

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sorry. 😊

silent token
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And was curious about the other options

brittle dagger
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in 99% of all cases it's the user's fault.

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whatever "it" is referring to.

dull grove
twin grail
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or u can just give it instruction being must use subagents everytime

twin grail
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this consume

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ur usage way much faster

keen meadow
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Anyone in Canada getting a hard coded denial for perplexity not creating images while on Pro Tier?

flint gull
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what is sonar 2

brittle dagger
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Anyone, who can figure out if I can give away those 2k free credits for Computer, which I've received for my Pro sub, can have them.
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Within the rules, of course.

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I have no use for Computer. Anything I would want my language models to do I'd implement myself. Much safer, far less trust issues.

lost jetty
split dome
brittle dagger
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I'd first correct its wording. It already starts wrong: "We are asked".

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Then make it stop speculating about intent and instead enforce strictness.

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There's far too much speculation going on.

lost jetty
brittle dagger
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Apply first person perspective, enforce taking the user literally, enforce removal of all speculation -> Increase intelligence and quality of responses.
Or ... well ... have the model behave equally to its users.

lost jetty
green crystal
# distant aurora I don't think so. If that were true then malaria wouldn't be transmitted.

That doubt comes from a wrong assumption: mosquitoes are not dirty flying syringes. They don’t automatically pass whatever blood disease one person has into the next person.

For a mosquito to transmit a disease, the germ usually has to do a very specific sequence:

  1. The mosquito bites an infected person or animal.

  2. The germ survives inside the mosquito.

  3. It crosses from the mosquito’s gut into its body.

  4. It multiplies or develops there.

  5. It reaches the mosquito’s salivary glands.

  6. During a later bite, it enters the next person through mosquito saliva.

CDC says mosquitoes do not transmit all kinds of germs, only ones that can grow or multiply inside the mosquito and move to the salivary glands. That process can take weeks.

So yes, mosquitoes really do transmit some diseases. Malaria works because Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, has part of its life cycle inside female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito later injects the parasite through saliva when it bites.

And it’s not only malaria. Some viruses are mosquito-borne too, like dengue, Zika, chikungunya, yellow fever, West Nile fever, and Japanese encephalitis. WHO lists these as vector-borne diseases, and says dengue is a major viral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes.

But many diseases cannot spread through mosquitoes. HIV is the classic example. HIV.gov explicitly says HIV is not spread by mosquitoes, ticks, or other insects. CDC also notes HIV cannot reproduce outside a human host, which is one reason it doesn’t use mosquitoes as a transmission route.

The clean answer is:

Mosquitoes transmit only pathogens that are biologically adapted to survive, develop, and reach the mosquito’s saliva. Malaria and dengue can. HIV and most ordinary human infections can’t.

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Wow the response looks so short in chatgpt app lol

green crystal
lost jetty