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A residency at Perplexity for people who want to do applied AI research on a working product rather than in a lab.
Why I recommend it: A residency is the friendliest door into research — you are paid to learn on a real team instead of needing the credential first.
Free, self-paced hands-on lab using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM, and Perplexity for real work tasks.
Why I recommend it: A recognizable university name on a free AI literacy course. Finish it with one work problem you solved using the tools so you have a story to tell.
The underlying working paper by Jeremy Yang and co-authors, using Perplexity data to model tasks as discrete steps and compare fixed vs. marginal costs of chatbots versus autonomous agents.
Why I recommend it: If the HBS summary hooks you, go to the source. Skim the task-cost framework and use it to audit your own week: which tasks are high-step and repeatable? Those are the ones to hand to an agent first.
