Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday launched Perplexity Labs, a software for subscribers to Perplexity’s $20-per-month Professional plan that may craft stories, spreadsheets, dashboards, and extra.
Perplexity Labs is accessible on the net, iOS, and Android, and coming quickly to Perplexity’s apps for Mac and Home windows.
“Perplexity Labs might help you full quite a lot of work and private tasks,” Perplexity explains in a weblog put up. “Labs is designed to take a position extra time — 10 minutes or longer — and leverage further instruments [to accomplish tasks], resembling superior file era and mini-app creation.”
Labs, which arrives the identical day as viral AI agent platform Manus launched a slide deck creation software, is part of Perplexity’s effort to broaden past its core enterprise of search. Perplexity is presently previewing an online browser, Comet, and lately acquired Learn.vc, a social media community for professionals.
Perplexity Labs, powered by AI, can conduct analysis and evaluation, taking round 10 minutes and utilizing instruments like net search, code execution, and chart and picture creation to craft stories and visualizations. Labs can create interactive net apps, Perplexity says, and write code to construction information, apply formulation, and create paperwork.
All information created throughout a Perplexity Labs workflow — resembling charts, pictures, and code information — are organized in a tab from the place they are often considered or downloaded. “This expanded functionality empowers you to develop a broader array of deliverables on your tasks,” in accordance with Perplexity’s weblog put up.
All of it sounds good in idea, however AI being an imperfect know-how, Labs possible doesn’t all the time hit the mark. In fact, we’ll reserve judgment till we’ve an opportunity to check it.
Perplexity has more and more invested in corporate-focused performance, final summer time launching an enterprise plan with consumer administration, “inner data search,” and extra. The strikes may very well be partly on the behest of the VCs backing Perplexity, who’re little doubt desirous to see a return prior to later. Perplexity is reportedly in talks to boost as much as $1 billion in capital from buyers at an $18 billion valuation.
