10 Surprising Things You Can Do with Perplexity.ai

Track stocks: Enter any stock ticker (or “[Company] stock”) and it will generate an interactive chart. Here’s an example with Tesla.

1. Track stocks: Enter any stock ticker (or “[Company] stock”) and it will generate an interactive chart. Here’s an example with Tesla.

2. Switch up your search: In addition to web searches, you can search academic papers, social networks, videos, or math problems.

3. Build timelines: track how something’s changed over time, like ChatGPT pricing.

4. Price comparison: Just ask “Where can I find the best price for [exact item you want]” to compare prices (another example).

5. Track current events: get snapshot recaps of what’s happening in the U.S. Presidential race, or what happened with Hurricane Milton

6. Research properties: Find out who owns a building, when it was last sold, or how many houses sold in a market last month.

7. Update your SEO: Use Perplexity’s API in your own apps, or in Google Sheets like this, to create topical maps of keywords to include in your content.

8. Create “GPTs” but for Perplexity: Use Collections to group related threads via custom instructions, kinda like customGPTs / Claude Projects (example).

9. Reasoning: Pro users can use o1 with Perplexity to reason through problems — its o1, but with the internet.

10. Recreate Google Alerts: Someone built a bot to find and send the latest news about their competitors. Fair warning, this takes some coding skills!