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Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground


Aravind Srinivas says agents need access to apps and claims that letting OpenAI take control of Chrome would be a disaster for the open Web.

Perplexity has tapped into the power of generative artificial intelligence—with all its problematic tendencies—in an effort to challenge Google as the dominant way people find information online. [In response to a follow-up request, Perplexity did not provide further details on error rates, but Jesse Dwyer, a spokesman, said that reliability is improving constantly]. Or “Can you schedule this meeting for me with this person and if there’s a conflict send them an email asking for a different time?” All these boring things, I feel we will be able to automate [them] pretty quickly [in future].

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