As the remedy phase of the monopoly case of the search for Google continues, a witness of the perplexity of the beginning of the AI testified that the exclusive contracts of the giant of the search prevented the Motorola smartphone manufacturer to establish the perplexity as a predetermined assistant in their new devices. The IA executive says that Google’s exclusive agreements are like a “gun in the head” from the perspective of device manufacturers.
Bloomberg information That duration is the ongoing Remedy phase From the Search Antimonopoolio test against Google, the Commercial Director of Perplexity, Dmitry Shevelenko, revealed that the Internet giant contract with Motorola blocked the smartphone manufacturer so that the perplexity is the predetermined assistant in its new devices.
According to Shevelenko, the AI application of Perplexity will not be the predetermined assistant to the Motorola devices “even though both parties want it to be” like Motorola “cannot leave their google obligations and, therefore, they cannot change on the device.” Instead, the perplexity application will be preloaded in new Motorola smartphones, but will not appear on the home screen that users first see the login.
Shevelenko mentioned that perplexity has an agreement signed so that its assistant to preinstall on the devices of a company and is currently negotiating another, without revealing the names of the companies involved. Hey, also noted that reaching associations with telephone operators and programmers to distribute the company’s application is a challenging task, comparing Google contracts with a “gun to their head”, where colleagues run the risk of losing a material source of income such as Breitbart News Previously reportedGoogle pays Apple an amazing $ 20 billion a year to accumulate your search monopoly.
The Department of Justice asked Judge Amit Mehta, who supervises the case, to prevent Google Height of selling its popular chrome craye.
Shevelenko estimated that it was 10 to 15 minutes to change the predetermined assistant on an Android phone in Gemini of Google to perplexity, and required help from one of the company’s IT employees. He stressed that programmers and operators should free themselves from Google’s restrictive contracts and the threat of income loss.
Interestingly, Shevelenko mentioned that none of Perplexity’s associations would have materialized if it were not for the antiponopoolio demand of the Department of Justice against Google, since the pressure on the giant of the search has made more deaths, transporters and browsers.
When asked about the potential sale of Google Chrome browser, Shevelenko declared that perplexity would not want OpenAi, the Chatgpt manufacturer, to acquire it due to the company’s previous reversal in its commitment to the open source. Perpleplexity is developing its own browser, Comet, based on Chromium, the Open Source version of Google de Chrome, and expects any sale to guarantee the continuous support of the open source version.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter of Knitbart News that cover issues of freedom of expression and online censorship.
