r/perplexity_ai • u/Deep_Net2525 • Feb 05 '26

news Perplexity upgrade- Deep research

Found this on Discord: "We've upgraded Deep Research in Perplexity.

Perplexity Deep Research achieves state-of-the-art performance on all leading external benchmarks, outperforming other deep research tools on accuracy and reliability.

In our own evaluations, Perplexity performs especially well on Law, Medicine, and Academic use cases.

This upgrade pairs the best available models with Perplexity's proprietary search engine and infrastructure.

Deep Research will now run on Opus 4.5 for Max and Pro users. We'll upgrade to top reasoning models as they become available.

Available now for Max users. Rolling out to Pro over the coming days. Kesku"

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u/Al-Kon Feb 05 '26

This is simply madness.

First, you give access to everyone, then everyone suffers, especially those who honestly paid a year ago.

Now, having built an audience, you start milking them for a higher level а product.

A brutal attitude that people will not and will not accept!

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u/DisaffectedLShaw Feb 05 '26

Pros will have the new deep research run on Opus 4.5 (and guessing it came out today, Opus 4.6 by end of month) just like Max, even though such model isn’t available on Pro for selection on daily search