Perplexity is reportedly key to Motorola’s next Razr

Perplexity’s AI voice assistant will reportedly play a significant role in the upcoming Motorola Razr expected to be announced April 24th, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after Motorola posted a teaser video of the Razr on social media last week, showing the foldable device animate into the word AI.

Perplexity is also working with T-Mobile’s parent company on a new “AI Phone” with agents that could handle tasks like booking flights without needing the user to interact with apps.

Sources speaking to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman say Perplexity has a deal with Motorola to feature its AI assistant alongside Google’s Gemini as an option. Motorola will have a special user interface to interact with Perplexity to encourage customers to try it, and the company will feature Perplexity in marketing.

Perplexity Assistant is also reportedly coming to Samsung devices, although talks are still early, according to Bloomberg’s sources. It’s hard to know how advanced those conversations are, but it’s easy to understand why Perplexity would want to work out a deal to get its assistant set up as the default one on Galaxy devices, or at least as an option for users to preload. Samsung already uses Gemini as its default AI assistant and Google as its main search engine provider.

Correction, April 17th: A previous version of this article said Motorola is announcing the Razr this week. It is next week.