Perplexity launches an AI email assistant for Max subscribers (www.engadget.com)

Perplexity launched "Email Assistant," an AI chatbot feature for performing basic email tasks—scheduling meetings, organizing/prioritizing inboxes, and drafting replies—available immediately but limited to Gmail and Outlook. The capability is gated behind Perplexity’s high-end Max subscription ($200/month); Max users opt in by writing to Perplexity’s assistant email address. Perplexity says the assistant “does not train on a user's emails” but will adopt the user’s writing style when composing replies. For the AI/ML community this is a notable step in integrating LLM-driven assistants directly into productivity workflows, highlighting trends in on-demand style transfer and in-context personalization rather than persistent model fine-tuning on private data. Technical implications include likely use of prompt conditioning or ephemeral context windows to mimic tone without weight updates, plus the usual trade-offs around data access and privacy when an external model is granted mailbox permissions. The premium pricing and limited client support may slow broad adoption, but the feature points to increasingly common production use-cases for LLMs in email triage and automation—and amplifies scrutiny of how providers handle user data and personalization.