If competition between the different artificial intelligence companies is enormous, in particular during the development of new language models, the effort to bring to mobile tools based on AI is also increasing. There, he knew how to see his perplexity hole: he developed an assistant capable of providing Gemini. Now he wants to finish the task to supplant another of the Google keys: Roda to search.
The excellent relationship that Samsung and Google maintain managed to advance the Samsung S24 pixel in a key AI tool: Rodea to search (circle to research). The idea has evolved from Google Lens to simplify the use process: it is enough to surround a screen part so that AI recognizes and explains what the circle contains. It's so good that imitations are already starting.
If you put perplexity as an assistant, you will have its own Rodea to search
That there is competition is always excellent news, also in the field of participants and in the additional tools they offer. And if Gemini has its environment to seek, perplexity is perfect for offering its alternative. In fact, this is called exactly the same thing, they did not break their heads.
As CEO of Perplexity Aravind Srinivas Advanced, the Circle To Search function will soon arrive in Android. The operation is exact for Google: once the wizard jumped on the screen, we can do the search function Locate everything we go from a circle. Any experience is based on the smart research of Perplexity, one of the most powerful and effective that currently exists.
As shown in the video shared by the CEO of Perplexity, the operation is such that:
- We should have the perplexity configured as a personal assistant on the mobile. Just access the phone settings, enter “applications”, then “predetermined applications” and choose perplexity instead of Google.
- We activate the wizard holding the ignition button.
- We will see that he jumps for perplexity and that next to the button on the bottom left, a new icon appears: the pencil. You have to click there.
- Once the circle interface is to search for activation, a screenshot will be captured. You have to surround what we want to locate.
- The perplexity will analyze the selection localizing everything related.
This new function will allow the perplexity potential to enjoy a more precise and Without having to manually attach the screenshot: Its environment to search will reduce the process to a simple circle. For the moment, it is not available, but it will arrive shortly. Let's see if it is more effective than the original.
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