Telefonica Tech enhances its AI offerings by introducing Perplexity for business clients
Telefonica Tech has announced a partnership with Perplexity, furthering the democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and offering advanced AI-powered search solutions to its customers. This collaboration is strengthening Telefonica's commitment to AI and enabling the company to enter the market with a broad and specific offering for each type of customer.
Perplexity Enterprise Pro for B2B Customers
The partnership between Telefonica Tech and Perplexity is providing the 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' service specifically tailored for the B2B sector. This service offers advanced AI-powered enterprise search capabilities designed to significantly boost business efficiency and productivity.
'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' responds to complex business queries within minutes, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making while adhering to strict security standards. The AI-powered search engine provides verifiable answers with citations and multimedia content, ensuring the delivery of accurate, trustworthy, and timely answers.
Enhancing AI Democratisation
The offering leverages artificial intelligence by delivering accurate, trustworthy, and timely answers to support business decision-makers who make trillions of dollars of decisions globally every day. Its AI capabilities accelerate problem solving and information retrieval, helping businesses operate more efficiently.
Telefonica Tech integrates Perplexity’s AI technology into its B2B portfolio to provide a broad and specific offering for each type of business customer, strengthening AI democratisation in enterprise environments.
Strategic Alliance
The collaboration between Telefonica and Perplexity began last October when Wayra, Telefonica's corporate venture capital arm, announced its investment in Perplexity. This partnership extends Telefónica's AI services across both B2C and B2B markets, embedding AI tools across telecommunications and enterprise products in Spain and other markets, thereby facilitating access to cutting-edge AI technologies.
Security and Privacy
'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' is SOC2 certified, ensuring effective controls for protecting customer data in the cloud. It offers unlimited assisted search queries and guarantees the security and privacy of information. Telefonica Tech commits not to use customer data to train its language models and to delete queries after seven days.
Availability and Additional Features
The AI-based search platform is now available for Telefonica's B2B customers. Telefonica Tech provides professional services to help customers implement 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' and get the most out of the tool. A three-month pilot is offered for companies interested in trying out 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro'.
Furthermore, Telefonica Tech offers an AI-based search platform with single sign-on (SSO) for fast and secure access to corporate systems. 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' has a user management model that allows team members to be easily added or removed.
B2C Offerings
In Spain, Movistar was the first commercial brand to offer 'Perplexity Pro' for all its customers since last January. Telefonica also offers a free 12-month subscription to 'Perplexity Pro' to its B2C customers in Spain, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Colombia. 'Perplexity Pro' sends alerts to customers to keep documents under control.
In conclusion, the partnership between Telefonica Tech and Perplexity is enhancing the democratisation of AI and offering advanced AI-powered search solutions to both B2B and B2C customers. The collaboration improves business efficiency and productivity by harnessing AI’s ability to deliver actionable, trustworthy information quickly, helping companies make better, faster decisions.
The collaboration between Telefonica Tech and Perplexity, through the provision of 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro', is delivering advanced artificial-intelligence (AI)-powered enterprise search capabilities to B2B customers, aiming to boost business efficiency and productivity.
The AI-powered search engine offered by 'Perplexity Enterprise Pro' accelerates problem-solving and information retrieval, strengthening the democratisation of AI in enterprise environments by providing verifiable, trustworthy, and timely answers to support business decision-makers.
