Perplexity launches an assistant for Android. An all in one that marks a before and after

The AI ​​Assistant Perplexity comes to Android with an enormous promise: to become the first truly useful assistant on your mobile. Or at least that it is capable of going far beyond what we knew.

Why is it important. This is not just another AI app. Perplexity integrates real-time web search, multitasking control and advanced automation in an interface that seeks to understand the context of your needs.

The context. Current mobile assistants are limited and frustrating when compared to the capabilities of an AI chatbot. Perplexity breaks these barriers by being able to maintain coherent conversations while doing tasks in different apps.

That is, it combines the capabilities of an AI chatbot with the classic assistant.

• It integrates with apps like Uber, Spotify and YouTube, as well as messaging and watch apps. More will come.
• It is multimodal, so it supports voice, text and camera…
• …so it can even “see” what you have on the screen.
• It is available in fifteen languages.
• Maintains context between different actions.
• Access information in real time thanks to reading websites.

Between the lines. The most important thing about Perplexity Assistant for Android is its ability to maintain context. For example, if you ask it about Italian restaurants near you, it will be able to automatically reserve the place that best suits your previous preferences and your usual dining time. Context.

More case studies:

• You can identify a product, even if it is newly launched, using the camera. The Verge mentions his success in spotting a promotional toy released just two days ago.
• You can compose and send emails maintaining our usual writing style.
• You can manage our calendar by creating contextualized events. For example, “remind me to take my heart pill two hours before the Valencia game.”
• Something more concrete: you can ask him ‘play the song that plays at the end of the movie’Interstellar‘”.

The big question. Is Perplexity going to be able to unseat the Google Assistant, or at least be more capable of competing with ChatGPT by having your own scope of action?

Although it is not easy at all, it is in a good position: it is already valued at 9 billion dollars, so it has the financial and technological muscle to try.

Go deeper. The power of this assistant lies, above all, in its proprietary search engine. It is what allows you to give updated and accurate answers. And what makes it overcome the limitations of chatbots that are based on pre-trained systems.

The assistant for Android can be activated from the Perplexity appreplacing the native Google one. As for whether it will come to iOS, it seems complicated: the company remains open to this possibility as long as Apple “grants them the appropriate permissions.”

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