README.md

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title: Perplexity AI Clone
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sdk: docker
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license: mit

Perplexity AI Clone

An AI-powered search and research assistant with multiple modes:

• Automatic: Auto-routes to best mode based on query
• Web Search: Real-time web search with citations
• RAG: Search uploaded documents
• Deep Research: Multi-step research with synthesis
• Agentic: Multi-agent RAG with planning
• Analysis: Data analysis and insights
• Summarize: Summarize content and documents
• Product MVP: Generate MVP blueprints from ideas
• Video Brain: Analyze YouTube videos

Features

• 🔍 Real-time web search with Tavily (with AI answers)
• 📚 Document upload and RAG
• 🤖 LangGraph-powered pipelines
• 💡 Follow-up question suggestions
• 🖼️ Image search integration
• 📊 Knowledge panels
• 🎥 YouTube video analysis

Environment Variables (Required!)

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Set these secrets in your Hugging Face Space settings:

1. Go to your Space Settings → Variables and secrets
2. Add these as Secrets (not Repository secrets):

• GROQ_API_KEY: Your Groq API key (get from https://console.groq.com)
• TAVILY_API_KEY: Your Tavily API key (get from https://tavily.com)

Without these keys, web search and LLM responses will not work!

Tech Stack

• FastAPI backend
• Streamlit frontend
• LangChain + LangGraph
• Groq LLM (compound-beta)
• FAISS vector store
• Sentence Transformers embeddings