
Perplexity GEO: Photon Replaces Its Third-Party Retrieval Engine
Perplexity says its in-house Photon engine cut retrieval and ranking p99 latency from about 800 ms to 65 ms, and shipped a Fast Search tier at $1.00 per 1,000 requests.
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Perplexity says its in-house Photon engine cut retrieval and ranking p99 latency from about 800 ms to 65 ms, and shipped a Fast Search tier at $1.00 per 1,000 requests.
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