Perplexica

Vane is one of the more pragmatic entries in the “AI search with citations” space: a self-hosted answering engine that mixes live web retrieval with local or cloud LLMs, while keeping the whole stack under your control.

While Google dominates the search engine market with over 90% global market share, there’s a growing ecosystem of alternative search engines offering different approaches to web search.

• Search is best for quick, straightforward information retrieval using keywords.
• Deep Search excels at understanding context and intent, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results for complex queries.

Not long ago was released. Let’s catch up and test how Mistral Small performs comparing to other LLMs.

Testing how Perplexica performs with various LLMs running on local Ollama: Llama3, Llama3.1, Hermes 3, Mistral Nemo, Mistral Large, Gemma 2, Qwen2, Phi 3 and Command-r of various quants and selecting The best LLM for Perplexica

Awesome food is the pleasure for your eyes too. But in this post we will compare two AI-based search systems, Farfalle and Perplexica.

That’s very exciting! Instead of calling copilot or perplexity.ai and telling all the world what you are after, you can now host similar service on your own PC or laptop!