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Perplexity mulls getting into hardware

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware, if tweets from the company's founder and CEO are any indication.

Hardware is becoming something of an obsession among high-profile AI startups — in part because of its cachet, but also because new AI-focused form factors have the potential to enable new kinds of interactions. Rabbit claims to have sold around 130,000 units as of June, but the startup has been slow to deliver on many of the features it advertised ahead of the R1’s launch. The startup touted its Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device, as a sort of smartphone replacement.

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