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System design interview question · AI engineering

Design an AI answer engine

Answer questions from the live web with cited sources in a few seconds, like Perplexity.

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Concepts this round covers

  • Query planning
  • Parallel fetching and caching
  • Grounded citations
  • Retrieval

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