Perplexity Details Photon Ranking Engine, Delay Drops to 65ms

Perplexity's engineering team detailed its Photon retrieval and ranking engine, cutting p99 latency from 800ms to 65ms while revealing how answers are ranked—effectively a public playbook for GEO optimization.

2026-10-15 ~ 2026-10-15 · 2 related posts

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