"In the digital cafeteria where AI chatbots mingle,
Perplexity AI is the scrawny new kid ready to
stand up to ChatGPT, which has so far run roughshod
over the AI landscape. With impressive lineage, a wide
array of features, and a dedicated mobile app, this
newcomer hopes to make the competition eat its dust."
— Jason Nelson at decrypt.co, April 12, 2023
What Barnes actually wrote:
"The final scene — the death of Simone most movingly portrayed,
I understand, by Geraldine Librandi, for the program did not specify
names — relied on nothing but light gradually dying to a cold
nothingness of dark, and was a superb theatrical coup."