Perplexity AI Phone! A New Robot Swarm! Gemini Live Vision. Anthropic Valued At $61.5 Billion!

AI News Roundup March 3.

Perplexity will be integrated into a new AI phone There's a new robot swarm to get excited about. Gemini Live Vision could be on its way in March, and Anthropic is valued at $61.5 billion. Here's today's AI news. Perplexity has been on fire recently, and now we have another big announcement from them.

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Today they unveiled that they are teaming up with Deutsche Telekom to make Perplexity the native AI assistant on their upcoming AI Phone. As device operating systems increasingly lean on AI assistants like this, the AI that is integrated into your system will make or break the capability and usability of your phone.

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Partnering with a strong company like Perplexity could work out very well for people looking to disrupt the market. Nothing quite instils fear in the human heart like the phrase "robot swarm". UBTECH has unveiled its connected humanoid robotics system that is looking to rival the Helix Network system that Figure AI revealed recently.

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In this video, we see multiple robots collaborating on tasks in a warehouse setting. We're not sure it's quite in the same league as the figure robots yet, but it's good to have robot rivalries between countries, right? It seems that Gemini Live Vision features will be launched on Android later this month for Gemini Advanced subscribers.

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The Live Vision feature allows users to show Gemini the environment in real time via the camera. Gemini can then engage with user prompts based on what it is seeing in the real world. This system has been demonstrated on a few different occasions, but until now it's felt like just a concept project.

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Now, with a potential March release, it's feeling much more exciting. Finally, Anthropic has announced that it has secured an additional $3.5 billion funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. This sets the company valuation at $61.5 billion.

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That's almost 50% more than Elon Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, quite the valuation for a company that most people have never heard.