Perplexity launches AI Assistant App for Mobile

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In Today’s Newsletter: 😀

• Perplexity launches AI Assistant App for Mobile

• Anthropic news Citations can improve AI reliability

• Google DeepMind's Mind Evolution can enhance AI thinking

Perplexity
📱 Perplexity launches AI Assistant App for Mobile

Perplexity unveiled a new AI assistant App for Android. The AI assistant, which acts similar to an AI agent in that it can help with daily tasks, perform searches, and utilize reasoning, has access to the internet. Also, because Perplexity’s search engine powers it, Perplexity Assistant has access to the web.

Insights for you:

• Perplexity is expanding its range with an AI assistant for Android that can control apps and perform tasks such as table reservations or Uber bookings on its own.

• The new assistant supports multimodal interaction: users can use both the live camera and voice input. It analyses objects in front of the camera or on the screen and answers questions about them. Another standout feature of Perplexity Assistant is its ability to maintain context across actions.

• The launch of Perplexity Assistant comes the same day as OpenAI unveiled its shopping agent, Operator. I talked about it in the last newsletter.

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Anthropic
🗣️ Anthropic news Citations can improve AI reliability

Anthropic has launched a new ‘Citations' feature for its developer API. Claude can now provide detailed references to the exact sentences and passages it uses to generate responses, leading to more trustworthy outputs. The use cases include document summarization, Q&A situations, and customer support.

Insights for you:

• Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, has launched a new feature called Citations.

• This feature allows developers to link AI-generated answers to specific sentences and passages within provided documents. It aims to improve AI accuracy by grounding outputs with references.

• ‘Citations’ is available through Anthropic’s developer API and Google’s Vertex AI platform, supporting several AI models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Google
🐵 Google DeepMind's Mind Evolution can enhance AI thinking

Google DeepMind has introduced the concept of Mind Evolution, a technique that optimizes the responses of LLMs for planning and reasoning tasks. This new approach is based on natural selection.

Insights for you:

• Google DeepMind’s new technique called Mind Evolution, uses a language model to generate a diverse population of candidate solutions and then recombine and refine these based on feedback from an evaluator.

• Mind Evolution relies on two key components: search and genetic algorithms. Search algorithms allow LLMs to find the best reasoning path for the optimal solution. Genetic algorithms create and evolve a population of candidate solutions to optimize a goal.

• It can significantly enhance LLMs’ problem-solving capabilities by guiding them to think more deeply about complex problems and effectively utilize inference-time computation.