A conversational generative AI search engine developer, Perplexity, and voice artificial intelligence startup, SoundHound, have partnered to add Perplexity’s large language models (LLMs) to the SoundHound Chat AI voice assistant.
Mike Zagorsek, Chief Operations Officer at SoundHound AI, confirmed the partnership on his verified X handle.
The company in a statement seen by Newsng on Friday said that his collaboration will allow SoundHound Chat AI to deliver precise, current answers to web-based inquiries that static LLMs are now unable to, and Perplexity AI to expand voice assistant services to automobiles, TVs, and other IoT devices.
Founded in 2022 by former members of OpenAI, Meta, Quora, Bing and Databricks, industry experts claim footnotes, links, and data from web searches are some of the ways that Perplexity is recognised for augmenting its generative AI chatbots.
“By integrating Perplexity search capabilities into SoundHound Chat AI we’re raising the bar for voice assistants and the kinds of queries they can handle effortlessly,” Zagorsek said.
“Where this technology is already deployed in vehicles, we’re seeing usage habits shift substantially – increasing by multiples. We’re confident that this enhancement will further delight users as more and more people choose to talk rather than type.”
This news follows closely on the announcement that OpenAI intended to release a search engine shortly that would function similarly to Perplexity in terms of real-time information provision.
Commenting on the partnership, Dmitry Shevelenko, Chief Business Officer at Perplexity AI stated: “Through this integration with SoundHound’s Chat AI assistant, we’re one step closer to our goal of making Perplexity available to everyone across every device they use.
“With the growing popularity of voice AI, we’re allowing users to more easily access the information they need when they need it.”
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