PERPLEXITY 2026

In 2026, artificial intelligence stopped feeling like science fiction and started feeling like infrastructure. Search, writing, coding, research, and even how we browse the web began to route through a new kind of interface: the AI assistant. Among the many tools competing for our attention, Perplexity stood out not just as another chatbot, but as a thinking partner that could see the web, reason over it, and respond in real time to how we actually work.