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Web Grounding for the Decisions API

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Perplexity has added a web_grounding mode to its Decisions API, letting decision models search the web before answering time-sensitive questions. On the PWS-Decisions benchmark, accuracy rose from 51% to 86% with median latency under 400 ms, according to Perplexity's own test. Each completed search adds $0.001 in cost.

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