Perplexity went from "Google Killer" to completely vanishing from our timelines.
US daily active user share collapsed 65% in just five months. From 6% in October 2025 to 2% in March 2026.
It captures just 2% of the global AI traffic market, completely crushed by Gemini & ChatGPT's 56%.
At one point, they even tried to acquire Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION😭
DSpark from @deepseek_ai ingeniously integrates many speculative decoding ideas to achieve 1.5x to 5x higher throughput in a real production system
Let's understand it with 10 ideas, starting from the very basics 🧵