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Perplexity AI Mastery

Go beyond Google with Perplexity — the AI-powered answer engine that cites its sources. Learn to use Quick Search, Pro Search, Deep Research, Spaces, Pages, file analysis, and the agentic Computer and Comet browser.

📚 13 lessons 🕐 150 min total ✓ Free

What Is Perplexity? The Answer Engine Explained

Understand what Perplexity is, how it differs from Google and ChatGPT, and what the three pricing tiers give you.

Your First Search: Reading Answers, Sources, and Follow-ups

Learn to read a Perplexity response — the answer, the citations, the source cards — and use follow-up questions to go deeper.

Pro Search: Deeper, More Thoughtful Answers

Learn when and how to use Pro Search — Perplexity's multi-step mode that asks clarifying questions, searches from multiple angles, and synthesises more thorough answers.

Deep Research: Your Autonomous Research Agent

Learn when to use Deep Research — Perplexity's agentic mode that runs for minutes, reads dozens of sources, and produces a full structured report.

Focus Modes: Academic, YouTube, Reddit, and More

Use Focus modes to direct Perplexity's search toward specific types of sources — academic papers, video content, community opinions, and more.

Spaces: Your Collaborative Research Hub

Create Spaces to organise ongoing research, write custom instructions that shape every thread inside them, and share them with teammates.

Pages: Turn Research Into Shareable Documents

Convert a research thread into a structured, shareable Page — a published document your audience can read without a Perplexity account.

File Analysis: Research With Your Own Documents

Upload PDFs, spreadsheets, and images to Perplexity and ask questions across your own documents — alone or combined with live web search.

Model Selection and Model Council

Choose which AI model powers your Perplexity searches, and use Model Council to compare answers from multiple models side by side.

Connectors: Search Across Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive

Connect Perplexity to your personal accounts and ask questions that draw on your own emails, messages, and files alongside live web search.

Memory and Brain: Perplexity That Remembers You

Learn how Perplexity's memory system and Brain feature build persistent context across your sessions — and how to manage what it knows about you.

Perplexity Computer and Comet: The Agentic Layer

Learn how Perplexity Computer and the Comet browser take Perplexity from answering questions to taking actions — booking, navigating, and completing multi-step tasks.

Building Your Perplexity Research Workflow (Capstone)

Put everything together with research workflow recipes for academics, business professionals, and content creators — and build a system you will actually use every day.

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