
Perplexity vs ChatGPT Search 2026
Perplexity vs ChatGPT for search and research in 2026: real-time citations, Deep Research speed, pricing tiers, and which tool fits which workflow.
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Perplexity vs ChatGPT for search and research in 2026: real-time citations, Deep Research speed, pricing tiers, and which tool fits which workflow.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training.

New research pinpoints the 8% of tokens driving reasoning failures, exposes memory laundering in agent systems, and cuts web agent inference costs 1.9x.

Seven Perplexity alternatives compared on citation quality, pricing, and research depth - from ChatGPT Search and Kagi to Grok DeepSearch and developer-focused Exa.

Three new papers tackle critique dependency in LLMs, ensemble monitoring for AI control, and agents that autonomously discover better neural architectures.

IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design.

ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.

A physics formula predicts AI behavioral shifts before they happen, a benchmark shows LLMs fail at 90% of graduate math formalization, and a training-free method cuts synthetic data costs by up to 78%.

SU-01 is a 30B-A3B MoE reasoning model from Shanghai AI Lab that achieves gold-medal performance on IMO 2025, USAMO 2026, and IPhO 2024/2025 using a three-stage training recipe and test-time scaling.

A 30B model earns IMO gold, memory consolidation silently corrupts agents, and a new metric predicts when LLMs lose track of their instructions.

New research shows reasoning length amplifies position bias, behavior cues cut wasted tokens by 50% while boosting safety, and sparse autoencoders can predict tool failures from model internals.

NVIDIA Ising is the first open AI model family for quantum computing - a 35B VLM for processor calibration and CNN decoders for real-time error correction, already deployed at 20+ research institutions.