Perplexity has made its answer engine available on its Android mobile app. The AI assistant answers user questions and performs tasks on their behalf: writing emails, making restaurant reservations, setting reminders, and much more.
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The assistant is multimodal: you can ask him a question about the device that is happening on the screen or start the camera and “show” something from the objects around. In the example, which Perplexity herself led, the user turned to the assistant with a request to “order me a trip” – he asked where the owner needed and opened Uber’s application with trips in this direction. The system that tested the service journalist for the resource, the system recommended an interesting podcast, successfully identified a gift from a fast food restaurant on the camera and wrote a family member, finding it in contacts.
So far, Perplexity AI does not work in all applications and does not manage all their functions: he could not enter the Slack and Reddit, did not help send a comment on YouTube, although the support of the latter is declared. The system can manage Spotify and Uber applications, email customers, messengers and watches; A set of available functions will expand.
The assistant is activated through the Perplexity application, where you can choose it as an assistant by default on the device in order to subsequently start the corresponding functions through a quick call. The II assistant is not yet available on the iPhone, but it will appear if Apple provides perplexity the necessary permits, the developer promised.