“We are excited to launch the Perplexity Assistant to all Android users,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a post to X on Thursday. “This marks the transition for Perplexity from an answer engine to a natively integrated assistant that can call other apps and perform basic tasks for you.” The Assistant will be available through the Perplexity mobile app and will run atop the platforms existing “answer engine” model. As such, Assistant will have access...