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ZDNET's takeaways
Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable.
The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you.
Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything.
Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity.
The chatbot (which ZDNET's Steven Vaughan-Nichols prefers over every other chatbot) announced a new partnership with OpenTable this week that lets you reserve a restaurant table straight from Perplexity.
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This means you can hit up the AI for ideas and make sure you have a table without switching between apps or tabs.
To try out the new reservation mode, I presented Perplexity with a simple query: the best date night restaurants near me. But to go a step beyond what a simple Google search would do, I asked the AI to find date night spots located in historic buildings.
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