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T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K
It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a major AI company.
Notably, Perplexity is playing a key role in the development of the phone — a signal of how the startup, known best today for its generative AI search engine — is making efforts to build more “proactive” products. Specifically, they have focused on the likes of Apple and Google, which have been operating systems and phones that largely cut telecoms companies out of the equation when it comes to making money around apps, and “owning” that customer relationship. It remains to be seen whether T-Mobile or Perplexity will be able to crack the notoriously tricky smartphone market, which is dominated by a small number of companies and has over the years even seen leviathans like LG cash in their chips and back away.
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