Perplexity AI Assistant Features & Capabilities: The Complete 2026 Guide
Most AI tools make a trade-off: broad reasoning or current information. Perplexity AI refuses that trade-off. Under the hood, it runs a Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline that fires a live web retrieval pass at query time, chunks and ranks documents, and injects those source snippets as citation tokens before the language model ever starts generating. The…