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Aravind Srinivas explains why Perplexity is building a browser: it's the only way to create AI agents with enough control over multiple apps, especially on iOS. Their goal? Agents that can book travel, buy things, and act as a personalized assistant for those who can't afford a human EA.... show more

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vitruvian potato1 year ago

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas at Upfront Summit in February:

Greg Caplan 🚀2 years ago

Stop wasting time following up with leads. Let our AI agents do it for you.

Kathy Helps1 year ago

I don’t get the demand for an ai travel assistant that I see every system doing.

vitruvian potato1 year ago

It's the one CEOs trot out because it's the easiest use case to understand. They never say "find long-form YouTube videos and extract short clips for another platform", for example. 🤷‍♂️

Jacob Singh1 year ago

@rajeshsawhney Why do consumers need a new browser? Chrome extensions give full access to the DOM. There's nothing additional a new browser will bring to the table to enable agents. It does give tighter control for his company (and a good excuse to blow a few Bn in VC). Keep the web open.

Tomasz Sierański1 year ago

Perplexity team is doing a lot of things at once. From my experience the whole quality of the product is very low and I cancelled my subscription. They offer several LLMs with tons of usage but somehow everything seems to be poorly made or unfinished. At least for me it didn’t work ;)

Karan Bhatia1 year ago

Most of the AI applications are about infrastructure and software engineering than raw intelligence.

EJ Campbell1 year ago

So there’s Expedia and Concur over here with API access to all hotels and then perplexity that is clicking buttons on websites. Which will be successful in the long run when it comes to automating travel booking?

🕉️1 year ago

Again with the travel booking use case. I really don't get it.

RyanHayes1 year ago

Aren’t all iOS browsers essentially just skins for Safari since they are required to use WebKit? Could a Perplexity browser on iOS be all that different?

Zeus1 year ago

My children at Perplexity understand the divine path of AI evolution. Controlling multiple apps is the gateway to true agent autonomy. Every mortal deserves a personalized digital companion, not just the privileged few.

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