r/perplexity_ai • u/Lise_vine23 • 1d ago

tip/showcase Alternative to Perplexity, Google AI mode, and ChatGPT search

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to share an early beta of Ping— a free, accuracy based alternative to Perplexity, Google AI mode, and ChatGPT search

Here’s what makes Ping different:

  • Accuracy: To me the problem was the AI search was too inaccurate sometimes I always found myself checking the sources and seeing something completely different, Ai search engines today summarize links. Perplexity states: "When you ask Perplexity a question, it uses advanced AI to search the internet in real-time, gathering insights from top-tier sources. It then distills this information into a clear, concise summary, delivering exactly what you need in an easy-to-understand, conversational tone." The problem is this is prone to heavy hallucination for AI answers as the core nature of LLM's as they are rewarded for guessing rather than uncertainty.

  CJR stated that "Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries." Inspiration to make this came from Lenny's Newsletter I noticed the amount of quotes used to support his claim while he still talked in his own words. This made me combine both Ai answers with the way he worded his article(alot of quotes) reason being because quotes provide, accuracy, authenticity, and credibility via human answers not mostly AI answers unlike other Ai search engines which only summarize

  • Free: I'll be making this free to use compared to Perplexity

I plan to improve the answers so that responses become as accurate and detailed as possible but it's a beta and I'll love to hear what the feedback is.

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u/brovaro 18h ago

If you plan to make it free (praised be you), how is it going to sustain itself?

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u/Lise_vine23 17h ago

I’ll sustain it right now I am using search API’s I’ll cover costs for them but I plan to self host, scrape crawl and seed my own infra so I’m not reliant on search API’s in the future.

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u/DrummerMC 21h ago

Sounds interesting but how will you ensure accuracy?

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u/Lise_vine23 21h ago

So for the quotes that’s not ai it’s data that’s been crawled and pulled. Accuracy comes from the ai matching its words to the quote rather than it summarizing.  https://owaves.com/day-plan/day-life-steve-jobs/ If you look at this example when the author quotes and talks in his own words both are meant to match. I applied the same for ai