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At the recently held Bloomberg Technology Summit, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, revealed that in May 2023, the query volume of the Perplexity AI search engine reached an impressive 780 million times, and the platform's monthly user growth rate exceeded 20%. Srinivas said: "If we can maintain this growth rate, we expect the weekly query volume to reach one billion within a year." This is really impressive, as in just twenty...

ByteDance's Doubao large model team recently announced a breakthrough in addressing key bottlenecks in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, open-sourcing a significant optimization technology called COMET. This technology dramatically improves large model training efficiency, achieving a remarkable 1.7x speedup and a 40% reduction in training costs. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing provider Midjourney. COMET has been deployed in ByteDance's multi-thousand-GPU cluster training, resulting in millions of GPU hours saved.

Perplexity AI recently announced the upcoming launch of Comet, a new browser designed for 'proxy search'. This browser will integrate the power of artificial intelligence to provide users with a more intelligent and convenient search experience. Perplexity AI itself is a search engine that combines large language models with real-time web search to provide users with comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information. So, what is 'proxy search'? Simply put, proxy search is a method that not only...