Perpleplexity was another of the protagonists of generative artificial intelligence with its search engine with AI which made it possible to use the different major language models. Now it has taken a big leap to become a direct competitor to Google with the arrival of its Assistant Agent was going on Android.
The assault on Android mobiles by the different players who form the Generative artificial intelligence scene It puts Google at a very hairy moment, which is trying to maintain its position with continued developments and a total rollout from Gemini to the Galaxy S25 to be the omnipresent assistant.
They play one fierce fight so another 'fighter' now comes along and does it with a virtual assistant with AI capable of reasoning, searching and helping with daily tasks in the same way as what Google's Gemini does, but with the occasional very interesting slope.
In fact, when Perplexity is activated for the first time as a virtual assistant on the Android mobile (it is now available in Europe), it can Ask for your main tasks So that with your voice you respond, it helps with tasks such as writing emails, summarizing web pages, searching for songs and videos, setting reminders and much more.
And these actions are not as simplistic as they seem, since Reminders are smart with Very interesting orders: “Remind me to see the next season of the HBO Dragon House.” Perplexity will be responsible for warning the user when published on the platform; Your own application on Android sends notifications with a summary of the news of the day or those of the greatest importance.
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The same goes for the ability to send messages to users; Similar to what Google presented two days ago in Gemini so that messages or searches can be issued and thus sent through Google Messages. Or that practically is responsible for requesting an Uber With the address included: “Get an Uber to the Taj Mahal in Chueca, Madrid.”
Perplexity, at the moment, cannot open the Uber application to give the trip data and request it, and It does everything on the web. That is, for this capability to offer the user must have a session initiated in their preferred browser. And yes, once completed, whenever information is requested for a trip or request an Uber, it will do so, although in our experience in Spanish – the free Android preference.
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This experience will likely change in Android 16because in the first precedent for developers launched in November, a new API appeared that will allow AI agents to be able to operate through applications; Function not currently available on Android 15.
Precisely, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, cited in a series of publications in X that some of the assistant's actions do not work perfectly, but they hope to fix it in the following months.
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It's the wide Fan of possibilities that it currently offers perplexity on Android (apart from others) to better understand the use that can be given to you and as agents will revolutionize the use of smartphones:
- Search and reproduce media: “Plays the last interstellar song.”
- Smart reminders: “Remember me to see the next season of the dragon house.”
- Write text messages and emails.
- Navigation and travel: “Ask an Uber to go to the Sun Gate.”
- Summary of notifications.
- Learn about the context of the screen: From checking information to sharing everything that appears on the screen.
- Question with the image: Like Google Lens with the use of the camera, but with the difference in the use of generative artificial intelligence.
- Reservation assistance In restaurants: “Reserve a table in the VIPs of Gran Vía”.
- Contact the companies: “CALL CUSTOMER CUSTOMER SERVICE”.
- Action chain: To make a summary of an article, then send it to a contact.
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Perplexity Assistant will initially be free in 15 languages, including Spanish, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi. It is already available in Europe and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store to try it on an Android mobile; And if it has an average score of 4.7 with more than 402,000 reviews, it's for nothing.
Yesterday Telefónica in Europe has grown I am expanding your alliance with the AI startup to offer your search engine for a free operator for a whole year. Founded in 2022, it has been able to raise over $500 million in capital from venture investors and is currently estimated to be worth $9,000 million.