# Perplexity — AI personal assistants: What they can and can’t do

- Company: Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-01
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- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/ai-personal-assistants
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10765-ai-personal-assistants-what-they-can-and-can-t-do
- Subject: Perplexity

Perplexity published a guide explaining how AI personal assistants work, what tasks they can handle, and how they differ from AI chatbots and agents. The guide covers use cases including research, email management, note-taking, calendar coordination, and shopping, and notes that leading agents complete about two-thirds of tasks on common computer-use benchmarks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/ai-personal-assistants:

> An AI personal assistant is software that helps someone organize, coordinate, and complete day-to-day tasks. It uses natural-language instructions, automation, and authorized data and applications to handle administrative jobs like preparing for a meeting, sorting email, and finding a time to talk.

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