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Perplexity Launches Photon: Search Just Got 12x Faster

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Imagine waiting almost a full second every time you hit search. Now imagine that wait shrinking down to a blink. Perplexity just made that real. The company shipped a brand new retrieval and ranking engine called Photon, built entirely from scratch in Rust, replacing an open-source engine they had…

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  1. 2026-09-30 14:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Perplexity Launches Photon: Search Just Got 12x Faster

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