Perplexity made a TV app and it’s coming to Samsung units

Samsung is partnering with Perplexity to deliver the startup’s AI Search engine to its sensible TVs. In the event you personal a 2025 Samsung TV, you can begin utilizing the app at present. The corporate will deliver the software program to older 2024 and 2023 units later this yr through an OTA replace. As a part of at present’s announcement, Perplexity can also be providing free 12-month subscriptions to its Pro plan. To redeem the supply, you’ll must scan the QR code that seems inside the new app.

As talked about, Perplexity is an AI search engine. Earlier than OpenAI, Anthropic and others added related capabilities to their chatbots, Perplexity’s providing was novel, giving customers a approach to search the online extra deeply than even Google allowed on the time. Issues have gotten much more aggressive in latest months, with Google going all in on AI Mode in Search. Nonetheless, if you wish to attempt completely different, it’s price seeing what Perplexity has to supply. The corporate’s Samsung TV app permits customers to each kind and use their voice to ask questions.

Irrespective of the way you slice it, this can be a curious partnership. Perplexity doesn’t have an important popularity, even when you think about the broader AI trade. In August, Cloudflare accused the corporate of scraping websites it wasn’t supposed to be. Later that very same month, two of Japan’s largest media corporations sued the company for copyright infringement, alleging it not solely stole info from them but in addition attributed falsehoods to them. And simply final month, Merriam-Webster sued Perplexity as properly, again alleging copyright infringement.