Perplexity AI's R1-1776 fine-tunes DeepSeek-R1 to match Claude Opus benchmarks at one-third the cost, reshaping AI pricing and crypto-AI investment

Perplexity's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already live in production.

Perplexity AI's R1-1776 fine-tunes DeepSeek-R1 to match Claude Opus benchmarks at one-third the cost, reshaping AI pricing and crypto-AI investment