- Confusion AI has released a mobile app for Android
- The confusion assistant offers voice, text and camera -based interactions for tasks such as booking trips and identification of items
- The assistant is integrated with apps and utilizes information in real time and task automation
AI Conversational Search Engine confusion goes mobile in the Google Play Store with a new Android app. Peplexity’s app throws itself as a kind of digital Swiss army knife that can control tasks for you, including reservations and identify items through your phone’s camera. Best of all, the app is free and speaks 15 languages.
By utilizing Perplexity’s own search engine, the assistant can also utilize web information in real time, so it is not only to regurgate pre -programmed answers. This should in theory make it smarter and more versatile than many of its competitors. To juggle with all these abilities, confusion can maintain context across multiple tasks. This means that it does not double book you and will remember what you like and dislike.
“You can do many cool things like booking an Uber, finding dinner tables, playing an old YouTube video, playing songs, getting directions and translating Shakespeare, all with voice and a simple action button or gesture,” Perplexity CEO Aravind explained Srinivas on X. “Cool things about this is that everything remains in context. You can start with a conversation about a question you have and follow up to set an action related to it, such as getting a warning in front of a basketball game. “
Say that you will have confusion to help with your dinner plans. AI will look for restaurants, check out reviews, suggest dishes for you and book the table at Opentable, all in a conversation. Srinivas admitted that the restaurant booking “doesn’t always work” but promised that it would soon be sorted.
Introduction of confusion assistant. Assistant uses reasoning, searching and apps to help with daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions. You can book dinner, find a forgotten song, call a trip, draft e emails, set up reminders and more. Available in Play Store. pic.twitter.com/uhduiidozdJanuary 23, 2025
Here are a few more examples of what confusion assistant can do. We can’t wait to see how you use it. Get this: pic.twitter.com/f7ibsffrgqJanuary 23, 2025
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This launch comes on the heels of Perplexity’s wider expansion efforts, including Rolling Out Sonar, an API that lets companies integrate Perplexity’s search technology into their own apps. It is part of a growth strategy that also includes the acquisition of the professional social media platform read.cv. Obviously, confusion is trying to build an ecosystem where its AI not only answers your questions, but also becomes an indispensable part of your daily workflow. Whether it will succeed in creating a full-blown AI assistant that people cannot live without, to see to see
Confusion is facing a crowded market, so everything one has to stand out will be useful. To beat Chatgpt, Google Gemini or Apple’s latest improvement of Siri through Apple Intelligence requires a lot of creativity from confusion. Still, if Perplexity’s app can deliver consistently with its multimodal capabilities and appeals, it is a real chance of muscle these rivals aside, at least partially.
People love news, but they hate frustration. If confusion can avoid or quickly blow up any errors, you can see that many people become far less confused about AI apps as a concept.