AI-powered search engine Perplexity “agentPerplexity is rationality; Perplexity calls it Perplexity Assistant, which uses apps to help with search and everyday tasks.
Perplexity Assistant available for Android devices through Thursday In the Perplexity appThe company says it can perform “multi-app actions” like driving a car or searching for a song.
Perplexity Assistant has access to the web because Perplexity's search engine enables it. This allows Assistant to do things like remind you of an event by finding the correct date and time and creating a calendar entry, Perplexity says.
Perplexity Assistant is versatile, as it can use your phone's camera to answer questions about your surroundings or on your screen. The assistant also maintains context from one activity to another, for example; Perplexity says it lets Perplexity Assistant research restaurants in your area and automatically reserve a table.
We are excited to launch Perplexity Assistant for all Android users. This marks the transition for Perplexity to a native integrated assistant that can call other apps from the answer engine and perform basic tasks for you. Update or install the Perplexity app on the Play Store. pic.twitter.com/FSRDLtVWzB
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) January 23 2025
Perplexity Assistant is English; Spain France German Japan Free for Perplexity users in 15 languages including Korean and Hindi.
While this product sounds great in theory, Perplexity has produced half-baked products in the past. For example, Our test Perplexity's shopping feature, designed to allow customers to order without going to a retailer's website, was found to be slow and error-prone.
Srinivas noted. Post Some Perplexity Assistant functions “may not always work,” but Perplexity “plans to address (these issues) in the next few months.”
Here are some more examples of what Perplexity Assistant can do. We can't wait to see how you use it!
Get it here: https://t.co/H4J9cr68So pic.twitter.com/F7ibSFfrgq
— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) January 23 2025
Perplexity Assistant comes days after the release of Perplexity. SonarAn API service that allows companies and developers to build the company's next-generation AI search tools into their own applications. acquired. A social media platform for academics called Read.cv.
Perplexity was founded in 2022. News is available. It has received more than $500 million in capital from VCs and is said to be valued at $9 billion.
Confusion grew quickly. It is an AI-powered search engine. Entertaining. As it expands its monetization efforts, it has more than 100 million weekly queries. Advertising plan.
But a thorn in Perplexity's side is its legal dispute with publishers. There's News Corp's Dow Jones and the NY Post. sued. Confusion over what is described as “content kleptocracy”. There are many other news sites. My brother The confusion closely replicated their content — New York Times in October Sent. The startup stops and stops.
such as giving confusion, Revenue sharing plan for shopsThe publisher respects the content.