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T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new 'AI phone' priced at under $1K | TechCrunch

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T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom , is building an AI Phone ’ with AI startup Perplexity.

The phone will have AI baked into how it, with the experience built by the startup.

It will be available for those who want to install it on their own Android or iOS devices.

Other services will include Google Cloud AI , ElevenLabs and Picsart .

It remains to be seen whether T-Mobile or Perplexity will be able to crack the notoriously tricky smartphone market, which is dominated by a small number of companies and has over the years even seen leviathans like LG cash in their chips and back away. It nevertheless points to just how magnetic the AI pull is right now, and how even the most legacy companies see it as a possible panacea. And how even the most cutting-edge startups are looking for safe moats amid fierce competition in their market..

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