Perplexity introduces AI assistant for Android to challenge Alexa, ChatGPT

Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity launched an agent-based assistant for Android devices on Thursday as it looks to take on larger rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and incumbent assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.

The Nvidia and Jeff Bezos-backed company said the tool, known as Perplexity Assistant, can book dinner reservations, hail rides on apps and set reminders, among other actions. It is available in 15 languages on Google’s Play Store.