Morphic setup and comparison with Perplexity

Uploaded on August 1, 2024, this tutorial covers a self-hosted Morphic search app and compares it with Perplexity. No Morphic release number or separate recording date is supplied. The model context includes GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Sonnet; the setup reflects the software shown at that time.

The presenter first tries Morphic's hosted site but encounters loading problems. He then walks through cloning the repository, installing Bun and configuring an environment file. His example requires an OpenAI API key, a Tavily search API key and an Upstash Redis REST URL and token. Bun installation options cover Windows, Linux and macOS. After installing dependencies, he starts the development server, which uses port 3000 or another available port.

The local demonstration asks why NVIDIA is growing quickly. Morphic returns an answer with images, linked sources, related suggestions and follow-up questions. The presenter submits the same question to Perplexity and says he still prefers its research features. He also contrasts Morphic's Tavily dependency with Perplexica's search approach, without establishing a search-quality winner.

This is an open source app setup using external services, rather than a demonstration of offline inference. The presenter shows optional Ollama configuration marked unstable at the time but does not test it. His suggestion that a changed API base URL could support Together AI is also untested in the video.