AIPerplexity introduces Fast Search for its Search API
Perplexity says Fast Search returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or less. It runs on Photon, which the company describes as its new Rust-based retrieval and ranking service.
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Perplexity announced Fast Search for its Search API, claiming it returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or less. The company says it built Photon, the Rust-based retrieval and ranking service behind the feature, with a small engineering team and hundreds of agents. A commenter at Shopify also says Perplexity has become the company’s main search API “on merit,” noting that Shopify constantly measures search APIs.
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Perplexity introduces Fast Search for its Search API
Perplexity says Fast Search returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or less. It runs on Photon, which the company describes as its new Rust-based retrieval and ranking service.
TLDR
Perplexity announced Fast Search for its Search API, claiming it returns 95% of search results in 230 milliseconds or less. The company says it built Photon, the Rust-based retrieval and ranking service behind the feature, with a small engineering team and hundreds of agents. A commenter at Shopify also says Perplexity has become the company’s main search API “on merit,” noting that Shopify constantly measures search APIs.