Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents

Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started.

Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), take inputs, analyze them against a massive trove of training data, and offer a response, usually in text but sometimes in image or video form. They can be described as agents when able to iterate over a…