Movistar just announce a very interesting agreement with Perplexity. Thus, Movistar customers will be able to access for free to the premium version of the Perplexity service, called Perplexity Pro.
Perplexity is a “conversational search engine” that since its beginnings It is proposing a paradigm shift in the way we search for information on the Internet. Your answers collect data from trusted sources and then built using AI models.
The result is clear and complete answers that are certainly a great alternative to those provided by traditional search engines, but this platform also goes one step further. Perplexity allows the client to expand and deepen the investigation by providing the possibility of asking follow-up questions related to the answers obtained, so that the client can dialogue with the answer engine in a personalized way.
Movistar customers will be able to activate the option from the website or from the miMovistar app.
Thanks to this agreement, the miMovistar service, along with the rest of Movistar’s contracting options, includes from today free access to Perplexity Pro for 12 months, a version that works using the most advanced AI models in the world (GPT -4o, OpenAI o1, Grok-2 and Claude 3.5).
So you can use it and take advantage of all its options
In order to activate the service we will have to go to our personal area on the Movistar website and in the miMovistar app. Movistar customers will have a personalized URL that they can use up to five times to activate the Pro version of the service for 12 months, so you can share it with family and friends.
The service Perplexity Pro offers important advantages over the free service. Among them the following stand out:
- Pro Searches: Up to 300 Pro searches per day, which are deeper and more detailed and may follow a “reasoning” process for more complex searches.
- Normal searches unlimited.
- Access to powerful AI models: from Perplexity we can choose advanced models for the responses. Among them, GPT-4 Omni, Claude 3 Sonnet/Opus and Sonar Large 32k (based on Llama 3 70b) stand out.
- File upload: It is possible to upload documents in PDF or CSV for example in addition to images to take advantage of the multimodal capabilities of these models.
- API Credit: It will also be possible to experiment with the API thanks to the five dollars a month of credit granted. With the API it is possible experiment with the latest Open Source LLMs, such as Llama 3, and the Perplexity Online LLMs.
An agreement that strengthens the alliance between both companies
The agreement comes shortly after Wayra announced in October 2024 that it was investing in Perplexitythus joining other companies such as NVIDIA or Databricks that participated in that investment round.
The agreement with Movistar is part of a global agreement between Telefónica and Perplexity, which is already being executed in Brazil and the United Kingdom, and which will soon be launched in other countries where Telefónica operates.
Likewise, Telefónica also announced that it is offering the first Perplexity experience through television worldwide, an app hosted within the Movistar Plus+ catalog that allows customers who have a UHD decoder to easily interact with Perplexity.
Users can ask about any topic through the Movistar Plus+ Voice Remote by pressing the Aura button, and receive text responses generated by AI in real time that will be displayed on the screen and can also be heard.