Perplexity's 'best software' picks lean on 215K AI-built pages
An independent audit finds ~60% of the sources behind AI software recommendations rank outside the top 100k sites. Plus: RWKV-7 open weights to self-host.
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60% of AI's sources rank nowhere
Trellner audited 380 software categories and found nearly 60% of the sources AI answer engines cite sit outside the top 100,000 websites — with three sites alone spinning up 215,128 machine-made “best software” pages that Perplexity now cites. The place buyers first research your tool is increasingly built for machines, not people.
It rewrites your distribution playbook
You can’t inspect or edit these intermediary pages, so classic SEO no longer guarantees a place on an AI’s shortlist. If the sources Perplexity pulls from never mention your product, you’re invisible at the moment of purchase research — worth checking today which pages actually cite you.
Elsewhere: RWKV-7 'G1j' open weights, zero KV cache
Fla Hub shipped attention-free RWKV-7 G1j base models from 1.5B to 13.3B under Apache-2.0 — a recurrent design with constant memory and constant per-token cost, and no attention KV cache. A real weekend project for local inference, with caveats: these are base (not instruct-tuned) checkpoints, cap at 16k context, and want a BF16-capable NVIDIA GPU.