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The Adoption and Usage of AI Agents: Early Evidence from Perplexity (collab with Harvard University)

  • 1.  The Adoption and Usage of AI Agents: Early Evidence from Perplexity (collab with Harvard University)

    Posted 3 days ago

    A study analysing how users of the company's Comet browser are utilizing AI agents has just been published (collab with Harvard University).

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    Based on it's findings, usage heavily centered on cognitive work and research over automating simple tasks.

    Key findings:

    • Researchers did analyse hundreds of millions of anonymised queries from Perplexity's Comet browser, which launched in July

    • Over half of queries involved research or workflow management, with common tasks including summarisation, document editing, and coursework help

    • Tech workers, academics, marketers, and finance professionals generated the bulk of activity, with adoption correlating to GDP and education levels

    • Behavior shifted over time, with users who started with casual queries like travel planning often migrating toward heavier knowledge work later on

    * Credits: The Rundown AI

    - Todor



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    Todor Kostov
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