Artificial Analysis posted that Perplexity Search API variants with low, medium, and high context settings took the top positions on its Search Index leaderboard. The post explains that the settings control how much extracted content each result carries. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas stated that Perplexity leads at search regardless of compute levels used by competitors. The announcement comes from the company's official account, which focuses on independent AI model evaluations and leaderboards.