Last March, Zoom offered folks who owned Pro licenses a year of Perplexity Pro at no cost. However, to take advantage of that offer, you needed to supply a credit card number to Preplexity.
The year is almost up. It turns out that Zoom was subsidizing a monthly subscription. So, in my case, there was no cost until my subscription renews near the end of March. Since Perplexity already has my credit card number, there’s no guarantee of being notified of the new charge.
So what I did (and other folks who welcomed the free subscription but are not willing to go ahead with the paid subscription) is wait until the subscription renews in February (with the subsidy) and then cancel it.
Thanks for the reminder. I am thinking of keeping Perplexity Pro. Sometime in the last year, the quality of Google search and other search engines seems to have declined quite noticeably. I often use Perplexity for general searching when Google disappoints me, though the free version of Perplexity may be good enough for me. Perplexity has done pretty well for me for more ambitious queries, though it makes its share of mistakes.
I’ve been quietly impressed by it, liking an AI which is more research/assistive focussed than generative. I’ve been noting a lot of the interest in Claude these days particularly for coding but when tried it for my use case it didn’t particularly do all that well.