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Perplexity Integrates Fast Search into Its Decisions API
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We're integrating Perplexity's Fast Search into the Perplexity Decisions API.
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Perplexity is integrating Fast Search into the Perplexity Decisions API, enabling batch-mode decisions with factual grounding from the web. Search costs $0.001 per request, and the Decisions API costs $0.02 per 1M input tokens. Aravind Srinivas also describes the API as state-of-the-art and the fastest available.
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See the full storyPerplexity Adds Fast Search to Its Decisions APIWe're integrating Perplexity's Fast Search into the Perplexity Decisions API. This allows for batch-mode decisions to be made with factual grounding from the web. State-of-the-art and the fastest API out there. Search costs $0.001 per request, and the Decisions API costs $0.02 per 1M input tokens.
The Decisions API can now search the web before it answers. A decision model returns a probability, but only knows what it saw in training, and your state. Add "mode": "web_grounding" and Fast Search runs one query per question, so pplx-decider-v1.2 answers from today's web.View the quoted post on X
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Perplexity is integrating Fast Search into its Decisions API so developers can make batch decisions grounded in web information. Search costs $0.001 per request, and Decisions API input costs $0.02 per 1 million tokens. Aravind Srinivas described the API as state of the art and the fastest available.
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