Inside the New Wave of Perplexity Built for engineering teams
Inside the quiet rewiring of expense reporting at Stripe.
The interesting question is not whether Perplexity works. It does. The interesting question is what teams do with it once the novelty wears off.
The cost curve matters here. Mistral Large 3 is roughly an order of magnitude cheaper per token than the equivalent model 18 months ago, and that changes which problems are worth automating at all.
The skeptical read is that we are watching a feature, not a platform. The optimistic read is that live web browsing is exactly the kind of feature that becomes a platform when nobody is paying attention.
Teams that win with long-context workflows tend to share a habit: they write the evals before they write the prompts. Everything else follows from that.
Intercom has been quietly running QBR prep through Hex Magic for months. The results are unglamorous and, for that reason, more interesting than another benchmark chart.
Intercom has been quietly running customer support through Codeium for months. The results are unglamorous and, for that reason, more interesting than another benchmark chart.
None of this guarantees a clean story. Meta FAIR could ship a model next month that rearranges the assumptions in this piece. But the direction of travel, for now, is clear enough to plan around.