Shweta Jena
Perplexity AI has announced email assistance to manage Gmail and Outlook inboxes for Max users, available with a monthly subscription of $200. The new feature will introduce an AI assistant into the inbox, allowing it to manage emails, schedule meetings, and even draft responses to threads that require attention.
The agent categorises the emails into different buckets and labels automatically, so that one can see what needs more priority. The AI will draft replies to email threads using the usual writing tone and style, and await the person’s sign-off before sending it. You can even address the AI agent and ask it to find time in your schedule to arrange meetings. It attempts to replicate the features of a personal assistant, managing not only reminders and sorting but also adapting to the user’s workflow and communication preferences, in contrast to basic email automation systems.
Perplexity Email Assistant is also automatically secure and complies with SOC 2 and GDPR. It never trains on user data, according to the blog post. Users can activate the Perplexity Max subscription, which costs $200 (approximately Rs 17,748), by copying assistant@perplexity.com on email threads after connecting their accounts through the Email Assistant hub.
On September 22, the AI firm also made its AI browser, Comet, available to Pro subscribers in India. The Comet browser helps automate repetitive processes by acting as an AI agent. It can go across different online pages on your behalf, handle all of the tabs, and summarize emails and calendar events.
Comet features a workspace where users can easily access all the data they need, in contrast to the tab interfaces of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. In order to recommend relevant information, the AI-powered browser also keeps track of what you’ve read, are working on, and are viewing.
Perplexity says the AI sidebar might potentially act as an agent. Users can use language instructions to instruct the AI assistant to buy a product, schedule a meeting, or turn a webpage into an email. Perplexity also intends to further expand the functionality of the browser in the near future.