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An AI-powered search engine that provides conversational answers to questions with cited sources, designed for research and information discovery.

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Jim Breuer uses this ✓ High confidence
"Put in Perplexity how many Nazca lines are there?"

Attribution: Jim Breuer is actively using Perplexity to search for information about the Nazca lines

Y Combinator uses this ✓ High confidence
"I go on, you know, Perplexity and it's like, you know what, like you shouldn't be using that model"
From: The AI Agent Economy Is Here ▶ 6:26 Feb 2026

Attribution: Describes using Perplexity to solve a technical problem successfully

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"I'm not into Perplexity, please."

Attribution: Joe Rogan asks someone to look something up on Perplexity, indicating he uses it for information lookup

OpenClaw uses this ✓ High confidence
"I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn't make it easy to use Google without Google."

Attribution: OpenClaw mentions switching to Perplexity as a search provider alternative to Google

Lex Fridman uses this ✓ High confidence
"I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books."

Attribution: Lex uses Perplexity to look up information about Sebastian during the conversation

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"Yeah, let's run that through Perplexity and ask if it's see if Perplexity will rat out TikTok"

Attribution: Joe Rogan suggests using Perplexity to verify information about TikTok censorship

PowerfulJRE uses this ✓ High confidence
"Well, let's put it into Perplexity and find out if that's true."

Attribution: Host suggests using Perplexity to fact-check information during the conversation

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"Like if you talk to Perplexity which is what I use for everything if I talked to it I would not know whether or not that's a person or not. It can communicate like a human."

Attribution: Joe Rogan explicitly states he uses Perplexity for everything and praises its human-like communication abilities

Lex Fridman uses this ✓ High confidence
"Let me look this up on Perplexity: what are the technologies we modern humans have that the Mashco Piro do not?"

Attribution: Host uses Perplexity to research information during the conversation

Greg Isenberg uses this ✓ High confidence
"Oh, what does Perplexity say? So I said, 'How big is Shopify apps? How much revenue through there?'"

Attribution: Greg Isenberg actively uses Perplexity to look up information about Shopify apps during the conversation

Whitney Cummings uses this ✓ High confidence
"So, let's put into perplexity. How much money did California travelers have in their luggage in 2024?"

Attribution: Whitney Cummings actively uses Perplexity to research and fact-check information during the conversation.

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"I put Perplexity on when I write. So, I'm writing about like the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and what happened when they got invaded. And as I'm writing I ask questions like how many people did Cortez come with?"

Attribution: Joe Rogan describes using Perplexity as a writing companion and research tool

Lex Fridman uses this ✓ High confidence
"Looking it up on Perplexity, real numbers include all the numbers that can be represented on the number line"

Attribution: Lex is actively using Perplexity to look up and cite definitions during the conversation

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"If I put that into Perplexity, how would they have made money on Haiti?"

Attribution: Joe Rogan mentions using Perplexity as his go-to tool for researching questions, indicating regular usage

Shane Gillis uses this ✓ High confidence
"Perplexity would have figured it out."

Attribution: Shane Gillis suggests Perplexity would have been able to solve a spelling/search problem they were having

Greg Isenberg uses this ✓ High confidence
"you can go and use perplexity comment transcript a YouTube, you know, video and put it in here"

Attribution: Greg mentions using Perplexity to transcribe YouTube videos for use in Notebook LM

Joe Rogan uses this ✓ High confidence
"Put that into perplexity. What are the laws? What states allow thermal binoculars for hunting?"

Attribution: Joe instructs someone to use Perplexity to research information

Greg Isenberg uses this
"You can go to Perplexity or whatever and actually check the sources."

Attribution: Greg mentions using Perplexity as a tool for source verification, indicating personal usage

GaryVee recommends ✓ High confidence
"Go to ChatGPT, go to Perplexity, go to Gemini and literally type in... The way you learn about AI is with AI."

Attribution: Listed alongside ChatGPT as a recommended AI tool for learning about AI

GaryVee recommends ✓ High confidence
"If you actually want to do it, go to ChatGPT or Perplexity or Gemini. Type in how do I become a TikTok affiliate."

Attribution: GaryVee recommends using Perplexity as a tool to research how to become a TikTok affiliate

Joe Rogan recommends ✓ High confidence
"Let's try Perplexity. Put that into Perplexity. See, I doubt that Perplexity would [censor it]."

Attribution: Joe Rogan suggests using Perplexity as an alternative to ChatGPT when it was censoring content, implying it's more open

Tom Bilyeu mentioned ✓ High confidence
"Perplexity has oneshotted Bloomberg's multi-billion dollar financial terminal empire."

Attribution: Tom mentions Perplexity's new capability to compete with Bloomberg terminals

Joe Rogan mentioned ✓ High confidence
"Throw that into Perplexity."

Attribution: Joe Rogan suggests using Perplexity to look up information

Greg Isenberg mentioned ✓ High confidence
"In a world where people are finding products and services through LLMs like Perplexity and ChatGPT and Gemini."

Attribution: Greg mentions Perplexity as part of discussing AI search alternatives

Lex Fridman mentioned ✓ High confidence
"like a hobby, just as cursor or perplexity"

Attribution: Host mentioning Perplexity as comparison to other AI tools

GaryVee mentioned ✓ High confidence
"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."

Attribution: GaryVee mentions Perplexity as one of the AI research tools people can choose from for doing research

Greg Isenberg mentioned ✓ High confidence
"Someone in the comment section is going to be like, well, I could have used Perplexity or ChatGPT to do that. Why should I use this?"

Attribution: Greg Isenberg mentions Perplexity as a potential alternative that viewers might suggest

Sebastian Raschka mentioned ✓ High confidence
"I think there will be some other multi-billion dollar acquisitions, like Perplexity"

Attribution: Sebastian mentions Perplexity as a potential acquisition target

Greg Isenberg mentioned ✓ High confidence
"So what you might have to do is go to something like Perplexity and do a prompt there to understand a little more about what you want an architected brief to look like."

Attribution: Greg mentions Perplexity as a tool for research to better understand prompt architecture

Marques Brownlee mentioned ✓ High confidence
"People use Claude and Perplexity and ChatGPT all the time for all kinds of stuff. These things have, you know, in the past few years become super high usage tools and have changed the landscape of business."
From: "Siri Isn't That Bad" ▶ 12:54 Nov 2025

Attribution: Marques includes Perplexity among the AI tools that have become essential and transformative for users

Lex Fridman 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"So here, going to Perplexity, Django Reinhardt was, of course, a jazz guitarist and composer, active mainly in France."

Attribution: Lex uses Perplexity to look up information about Django Reinhardt during the conversation, and it's mentioned in the sponsor segment

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Please pull up Perplexity, our wonderful AI sponsor, and ask it what is the definition of Luciferianism."

Attribution: Joe Rogan explicitly mentions Perplexity as a sponsor and uses it to look up information during the show

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"And our sponsor, our AI sponsor, Perplexity says, 'The menthol effect in cigarettes come from the chemical menthol itself'"

Attribution: Joe uses Perplexity to look up information about menthol and explicitly mentions it as a sponsor

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Put this into our wonderful sponsor Perplexity before it becomes the digital god that takes over the universe."

Attribution: Joe Rogan references Perplexity as a sponsor while using it to research information about drowning statistics

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"I fucking I use AI so much now. I was in the beginning I was resisting it so much. Then Perplexity came on as a sponsor and now instead of searching things online, I just ask the phone. I just pull up the app and ask it a question."

Attribution: Joe mentions Perplexity as a sponsor but also describes personal usage and positive experience with the AI tool

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"And this is all from our sponsor Perplexity that we run all of our questions through and it's always been very accurate."

Attribution: Host explicitly states Perplexity is their sponsor and describes personal usage ('we run all our questions through')

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"we used per our sponsor Perplexity the other day and tried to figure out through AI what the exact number is"

Attribution: Joe Rogan explicitly mentions Perplexity as 'our sponsor' and describes using it for research, indicating both sponsorship and personal use

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"So, we put it into our sponsor perplexity."

Attribution: Joe explicitly mentions using Perplexity and identifies it as a sponsor

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"This is according to Perplexity, which is our AI sponsor, which is always very accurate."

Attribution: Joe Rogan mentions using Perplexity to look up information about Lincoln and slaves, calling it their AI sponsor

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"So this we brand actually ran this through Perplexity. So which is our sponsor. It's a AI program. It's always pretty accurate."

Attribution: Host mentions using Perplexity and explicitly states it's their sponsor, showing both usage and sponsorship.

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"our sponsor Perplexity said? Pointed metal lawn darts were officially linked to three child deaths in the United States before they were banned."

Attribution: Joe Rogan explicitly states Perplexity is their sponsor and uses it to look up information about lawn dart fatalities

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"According to our sponsor, Perplexity, a woolly mammoth and a mastodon were related, but quite different ice age elephants."

Attribution: Host explicitly mentions 'our sponsor Perplexity' while using it to look up information about mammoths vs mastodons

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Let's put that into our sponsor Perplexity"

Attribution: Joe Rogan mentions Perplexity as a sponsor and uses it to search for information about making gold

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Throw that into our sponsor Perplexity and find out"

Attribution: Host mentions it as 'our sponsor' while using it to look up information about cell replacement

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"So here it is. We put it into our sponsor, Perplexity. Heroin created as a morphine treatment originally developed in the late 19th century"

Attribution: Joe Rogan is using Perplexity to look up information during the show and mentions it as a sponsor

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"We have a sponsor Perplexity our AI sponsor so clay tablets from Mesopotamia Sumerian later Babylonian..."

Attribution: Joe Rogan uses Perplexity to look up information about constellation names during the conversation. The context suggests this is both a sponsored segment and genuine usage.

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Put that into our wonderful sponsor Perplexity. And if you put aspirin use and Reye syndrome, you'll see"

Attribution: Joe mentions Perplexity as 'our wonderful sponsor' and uses it to look up medical information, indicating a sponsorship

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"I'm sponsor Perplexity. Are termites natural stitches?"

Attribution: PowerfulJRE explicitly states he sponsors Perplexity while using it to search for information about termites as natural stitches

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Jamie, put that into our sponsor Perplexity. When was the first known documented hard liquor like whiskey, vodka?"

Attribution: Joe Rogan refers to Perplexity as 'our sponsor' and asks Jamie to use it for research, indicating it's a sponsored product mention

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Thank you to our sponsor, Perplexity."

Attribution: Host reads a clear sponsorship acknowledgment after using the service

PowerfulJRE 💰 sponsored ✓ High confidence
"Ask Perplexity, our sponsor. When did they start putting an arena in Vegas?"

Attribution: PowerfulJRE explicitly mentions Perplexity as 'our sponsor' while suggesting to use it for research

Joe Rogan 💰 sponsored
"Maybe we can get our sponsor Perplexity to process this and give us a synopsis of what exactly happened, some sort of a breakdown."

Attribution: Joe Rogan explicitly refers to Perplexity as 'our sponsor' when suggesting using it to analyze information about the Epstein case