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Perplexity, Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Photon: Building a Retrieval and Ranking Engine From Scratch

Vol 342 · Issue 4 · 2026-09-24

Perplexity built Photon, a Rust-based retrieval and ranking engine that returns 95% of search results in under 230ms.

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