Subj : Perplexity's AI assistant goes mobile on Android To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Fri Jan 24 2025 01:15:06 Perplexity's AI assistant goes mobile on Android Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:00:00 +0000 Description: Perplexity debuts election information hub. FULL STORY ======================================================================Perplexi ty AI has released a mobile app for Android The Perplexity Assistant offers voice, text, and camera-based interactions for tasks such as booking rides and identifying objects The assistant integrates with apps and leverages real-time information and task automation AI conversational search engine Perplexity is going mobile on the Google Play Store with a new Android app. Peeplexity's app pitches itself as a kind of digital Swiss Army knife that can manage tasks for you, including making reservations and identifying objects through your phones camera. Best of all, the app is free and speaks 15 languages. By leveraging Perplexitys own search engine, the assistant can also tap into real-time web information, so its not just regurgitating pre-programmed answers. This should, in theory, make it smarter and more versatile than many of its competitors. To juggle all of those abilities, Perplexity can maintain context across multiple tasks. That means it won't double-book you and will remember what you like and don't like. "You can do many cool things like booking an Uber, finding dinner tables, playing an old YouTube video, playing songs, getting directions, and translating Shakespeare, all with voice and a simple action button or gesture," Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas explained on X. "Cool thing about this is everything stays in context. You can start with a conversation about some question you have and follow up to set an action related to it, e.g., getting an alert ahead of a basketball game." Say you want Perplexity to help with your dinner plans. The AI will look for restaurants, check reviews, suggest dishes for you, and book the table on OpenTable, all in one conversation. Srinivas admitted that the restaurant booking "doesn't always work" but promised it would be sorted out soon. Introducing Perplexity Assistant.Assistant uses reasoning, search, and apps to help with daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions. You can book dinner, find a forgotten song, call a ride, draft emails, set reminders, and more.Available on Play Store. pic.twitter.com/UHdUIiDOzD January 23, 2025 Here are a few more examples of what Perplexity Assistant can do. We cant wait to see how you use it.Get it here: https://t.co/H4J9cr68So pic.twitter.com/F7ibSFfrgq January 23, 2025 Perplexity resolved This launch comes on the heels of Perplexitys broader expansion efforts, including rolling out Sonar, an API that lets businesses integrate Perplexitys search tech into their own apps. Its part of a growth strategy that also includes acquiring the professional social media platform Read.cv. Clearly, Perplexity is trying to build an ecosystem where its AI doesnt just answer your questions but also becomes an indispensable part of your daily workflow. Whether itll succeed in creating a full-blown AI assistant that people cant live without remains to be seen Perplexity is facing a crowded market, so anything to stand out will be useful. To beat ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Apple's latest enhancement of Siri through Apple Intelligence will require a lot of creativity from Perplexity. Still, if Perplexity's app can deliver consistently with its multimodal capabilities and app integrations, it stands a real chance of muscling aside those rivals, at least partly. People love novelty, but they hate frustration. If Perplexity can avoid or quickly squash any bugs, you might see a lot of people becoming far less perplexed about AI apps as a concept. You might also like... Perplexity's AI search engine goes deep to get your answers Get ready for AI to serve Google Search-style ads AI meets democracy on Perplexity AI's new Election Information Hub ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/perplexitys-ai-ass istant-goes-mobile-on-android --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .