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ZDNET's key takeaways
Email Assistant can help you review, organize, and draft emails.
It's available to paid subscribers of Perplexity Max.
AI companies are marketing heavily to enterprise customers.
Perplexity is bringing its AI directly to white-collar workers' inboxes with an automated assistant that can review and organize emails, and respond to messages in an approximation of their human users' voices.
What Email Assistant can do
Email Assistant, released Monday, connects directly with Gmail or Outlook via a user's desktop or mobile email app to perform a wide range of monotonous tasks, like suggesting meeting times based on calendar availability and generating summaries of disparate but related message threads. This mirrors a feature within Comet -- Perplexity's AI agent-powered web browser designed to compete with Chrome and other legacy browsers -- which can summarize content found on a particular web page.
Also: I tried Perplexity's Comet AI browser, and I like where it's going (but it's not there yet)
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