Saturday, 13th January 2024
More than an OpenAI Wrapper: Perplexity Pivots to Open Source. I’m increasingly impressed with Perplexity.ai—I’m using it on a daily basis now. It’s by far the best implementation I’ve seen of LLM-assisted search—beating Microsoft Bing and Google Bard at their own game.
A year ago it was implemented as a GPT 3.5 powered wrapper around Microsoft Bing. To my surprise they’ve now evolved way beyond that: Perplexity has their own search index now and is running their own crawlers, and they’re using variants of Mistral 7B and Llama 70B as their models rather than continuing to depend on OpenAI.
Release
datasette-cluster-map 0.18
— Datasette plugin that shows a map for any data with latitude/longitude columns
TIL
Using expect() to wait for a selector to match multiple items
— In the Playwright tests for [datasette-cluster-map](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-cluster-map) I wanted to assert that two markers had been displayed on a Leaflet map.