chat_perplexity: Chat with a model hosted on perplexity.ai

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Chat with a model hosted on perplexity.ai

Description

Sign up at https://www.perplexity.ai.

Perplexity AI is a platform for running LLMs that are capable of searching the web in real-time to help them answer questions with information that may not have been available when the model was trained.

This function is a lightweight wrapper around chat_openai() with the defaults tweaked for Perplexity AI.

Usage

chat_perplexity(
  system_prompt = NULL,
  turns = NULL,
  base_url = "https://api.perplexity.ai/",
  api_key = perplexity_key(),
  model = NULL,
  seed = NULL,
  api_args = list(),
  echo = NULL
)

Arguments

system_prompt	A system prompt to set the behavior of the assistant.
turns	A list of Turns to start the chat with (i.e., continuing a previous conversation). If not provided, the conversation begins from scratch.
base_url	The base URL to the endpoint; the default uses OpenAI.
api_key	The API key to use for authentication. You generally should not supply this directly, but instead set the PERPLEXITY_API_KEY environment variable.
model	The model to use for the chat. The default, NULL, will pick a reasonable default, and tell you about. We strongly recommend explicitly choosing a model for all but the most casual use.
seed	Optional integer seed that ChatGPT uses to try and make output more reproducible.
api_args	Named list of arbitrary extra arguments appended to the body of every chat API call.
echo	One of the following options: none: don't emit any output (default when running in a function). text: echo text output as it streams in (default when running at the console). all: echo all input and output. Note this only affects the chat() method.

Value

A Chat object.

See Also

Other chatbots: chat_bedrock(), chat_claude(), chat_cortex_analyst(), chat_databricks(), chat_deepseek(), chat_gemini(), chat_github(), chat_groq(), chat_ollama(), chat_openai(), chat_openrouter()

Examples

## Not run: 
chat <- chat_perplexity()
chat$chat("Tell me three jokes about statisticians")

## End(Not run)

ellmer documentation built on April 4, 2025, 3:53 a.m.