Of 1,826 citations Perplexity's search models attached to a sentence stating a figure, 34.7% pointed at a page that either would not open or did not contain a single figure from that sentence; scored per claim rather than per citation, 14.4% of 872 claims fail.We asked Perplexity’s two search models 310 factual questions about 210 technology companies, collected every source they cited, fetched all of them, and checked whether the page said the thing it was cited for. Of the 1,826 citations atta...