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Perplexity’s Deep Research: Free, Fast, and Ready to Flex

February 16, 2025

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AI Daybreak: Your Daily Dose of Silicon Beach Madness

By Tommy Vee

Listen up, you tech-loving degenerates—AI isn’t slowing down, and neither are the billion-dollar companies throwing cash at it like a drunk guy at a blackjack table. This week, Apple is strapping AI onto the Vision Pro, hoping it finally justifies that $3,500 price tag. Perplexity is jumping into the deep research game, proving that every AI company wants to be your overpriced homework assistant. And Meta? Oh, they’re out here trying to build humanoid robots—because apparently, stealing your data wasn’t ambitious enough. Let’s break it all down before the machines take over!

Vision Pro Meets Apple Intelligence: A $3,500 AI Experiment

Apple’s finally strapping its so-called "intelligence" onto the Vision Pro, and word on the street (aka Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman) says it could happen as early as April. That’s right—soon, you’ll be able to have AI-generated emojis and rewritten emails… while wearing a $3,500 ski mask. Living the dream, huh?

Apple teased this AI rollout back in June 2024, but nobody knew how they’d squeeze their fancy Writing Tools, Genmoji, and Image Playground into a mixed-reality headset. Now, visionOS 2.4 is supposedly bringing the goods, with a developer version dropping as soon as this week.

Oh, but don’t get too excited—Siri’s still sitting this one out. Apple’s been hyping up a massive upgrade for their lovable-but-dumb assistant, but surprise, surprise—engineering issues and bugs have it stuck in the shop. So while your Vision Pro might generate quirky AI images, it still won’t understand when you say, “Hey Siri, stop sucking.”

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Perplexity’s Deep Research: Free, Fast, and Ready to Flex

Looks like Perplexity just crashed the AI research party with its own “Deep Research” tool—because, you know, slapping the same name on a feature that Google and OpenAI already launched totally screams originality.

The pitch? More in-depth answers, real citations, and expert-level analysis. Basically, AI that doesn’t just make stuff up like your average chatbot. Perplexity claims this thing can handle finance, marketing, and product research—so hey, maybe it can finally figure out why AI startups love burning VC money.

Unlike OpenAI’s Deep Research, which costs a whopping $200 a month (because OpenAI thinks we all got oil money), Perplexity’s version is free—kind of. Non-subscribers get a “limited” number of queries per day, while paying customers get the all-you-can-eat buffet. And bonus: it actually works faster, spitting out results in under three minutes, while OpenAI’s version takes anywhere from five minutes to half an hour. Maybe they’re running it on dial-up.

Perplexity even flexed its AI muscle by scoring 21.1% on Humanity’s Last Exam—crushing Gemini Thinking (6.2%), Grok-2 (3.8%), and GPT-4o (3.3%). But OpenAI’s Deep Research still topped the leaderboard at 26.6%. Yeah, it’s basically the nerd who aces the test but still charges you to copy their homework.

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Meta’s Building Humanoid Robots: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Looks like Zuckerberg’s next big bet isn’t just stealing your personal info—it’s building robots that might eventually steal your job, too. Meta’s Reality Labs is spinning up a new robotics team to cook up humanoid machines, possibly to help with household chores. Because nothing says “future of tech” like a billionaire trying to build a sci-fi butler.

Leading this robo-revolution is Marc Whitten, former CEO of Cruise—the driverless car company best known for creating traffic jams. Before that, he did time at Amazon, Microsoft, and Sonos, so he’s got experience in making stuff that listens to you 24/7. Perfect for Meta’s vision.

Now, don’t expect a shiny "MetaBot 3000" in your living room anytime soon. The plan isn’t to launch a Meta-branded robot—at least, not yet. Instead, they want to create a hardware foundation for the whole robotics industry, kind of like how Google did with Android. Because we all know how smooth and bug-free Android updates are.

Meta is already talking to robotics companies like Unitree Robotics and Figure AI, probably looking for someone to do the hard work while they slap their AI on top. If this actually works out, your next smart home upgrade might be a Meta-powered robot vacuum that judges you for leaving Dorito crumbs on the couch.

Bottom line? Meta's building the future of AI-powered robots. Whether they’ll clean your house or just sell you more ads, we’ll find out soon enough.

The Tommy Vee Take

Alright, that’s your AI fix for the week. Apple’s throwing AI into a headset no one asked for, Perplexity wants to be your go-to research nerd, and Meta is cooking up humanoid robots that’ll probably sell you ads while folding your laundry. The AI race isn’t slowing down—it’s just getting weirder.

Stay sharp, stay skeptical, and don’t let a robot steal your job… unless it does chores too. See you next time. This is Tommy Vee, signing off.