Perplexity is getting one of Android's coolest AI features

NurPhoto/Getty Images One of the coolest Android features is coming to Perplexity -- unofficially. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) this week, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas announced that a Circle to Search-style feature is coming to Perplexity on Android. Also: Perplexity is the AI tool Gemini wishes it could be In a short video demonstration, a user is chatting with Perplexity about the greatest tennis players of all time. When the user draws a circle around a bullet point about Roger Federer and verbally asks for "the net worth of this guy," Perplexity identifies the person, conducts an online search, and replies with an answer. Srinivas didn't say when exactly the feature would arrive, only saying that it's "coming soon." When I checked, the feature wasn't available in the app yet. I was able to use Google's Circle to Search on the Perplexity app, but of course, that took me out of the app. My test with Google was significantly faster than Perpelxity's demo, which took abo ... Read full article.