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AI - powered search locomotive Perplexity has plunge an “ agent , ” of sorts , called Perplexity Assistant , which Perplexity suppose habituate abstract thought , search , and apps to help with daily tasks .
Perplexity Assistant , which is available for Android gadget as of Thursdayin the Perplexity app , can take “ multi - app natural action , ” the company says , like hailing a ride or searching for a song .
Because Perplexity ’s lookup engine tycoon it , Perplexity Assistant has access to the WWW . That provide the assistant to do matter like remind you of an event by happen the right engagement and metre and produce a calendar entry , Perplexity says .
Perplexity Assistant is multimodal in the sense that it can practice your phone ’s camera to answer questions about what ’s around you or on your screen door . The helper also maintain context from one action to another , letting you , for deterrent example , have Perplexity Assistant enquiry restaurants in your area and reserve a table mechanically , Perplexity says .
We are excited to launch the Perplexity Assistant to all Android user . This marks the transition for Perplexity from an solution locomotive to a natively integrated supporter that can call other apps and perform basic tasks for you . Update or instal Perplexity app on Play Store.pic.twitter.com/FSRDLtVWzB
— Aravind Srinivas ( @AravSrinivas)January 23 , 2025
Perplexity Assistant will ab initio be free for Perplexity user in 15 languages , including English , Spanish , French , German , Japanese , Korean , and Hindi .
While this product sounds great in theory , Perplexity has set in motion half - broil products in the past times . For case , our testingfound that Perplexity ’s shopping feature , designed to allow user place an order without going to a retail merchant ’s site , tended to be slow and error - prone .
Here are a few more example of what Perplexity Assistant can do . We ca n’t wait to see how you use it .
Get it here : https://t.co / H4J9cr68Sopic.twitter.com / F7ibSFfrgq
— Perplexity ( @perplexity_ai)January 23 , 2025
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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas mark in serial ofpostson X that some Perplexity Assistant actions “ [ might ] not always work , ” but that Perplexity project to address this in the coming months . For lesson , Srinivassaid , the assistant can only resume unread emails and approaching calendar appointments now if users enable something of a notifications - based workaround .
The launch of Perplexity Assistant comes just days after Perplexity rolled outSonar , an API service that let enterprises and developers work up the company ’s generative AI search puppet into their own app , andacquireda social media platform for professionals called Read.cv .
found in 2022 , Perplexity hasreportedlyraised over $ 500 million in cap from VCs and is said to be rate at $ 9 billion .
Perplexity is develop apace . The AI - power search locomotive isperformingover 100 million question each week as it expands monetisation efforts like itsadvertising program .
A thorn in Perplexity ’s side , however , is its sound tussle with publishers . News Corp ’s Dow Jones and the NY Post havesuedPerplexity over what they describe as a “ content kleptocracy . ” Many other news site haveexpressed concernsthat Perplexity closely replicates their depicted object — just in October , The New York Timessentthe startup a cease and desist .
Perplexity , which offer arevenue - communion programme for mercantile establishment , has said that it respects publisher cognitive content .
