Telefónica Tech is partnering with Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, to provide the ‘Perplexity Enterprise Pro’ service to the business segment in Spain.
Telefónica Tech offers this service to its customers and complements it with its professional services to help customers implement it. It will also offer a three-month pilot during the launch of the service for companies interested in trying it out.
The service is a search engine that, after analysing information from the Internet, proprietary data and internal customer sources in real time, subsequently dramatically reducing search time and providing users with verifiable answers. It also offers unlimited assessed search queries to refine questions and provide the best answer.
With this new service, Telefónica Tech offers its customers an AI-based search platform with single sign-on (SSO), which facilitates fast and secure access to corporate systems and guarantees data privacy by committing not to use it to train its language models (LLMs) and to delete queries after seven days.
In terms of security, ‘Perplexity Enterprise Pro’ is SOC2 certified, which certifies that it has effective controls in place to protect customer data in the Cloud, and a user management model that allows team members to be easily added or removed. The enterprise version of Perplexity also sends alerts to customers to keep documents under control.
“We continue to expand our portfolio of AI services in the workplace to offer our B2B customers the most advanced tools to boost efficiency and productivity in their businesses. ‘Perplexity Enterprise Pro’ responds to complex queries in minutes, enabling companies to accelerate their decision-making while always meeting strict security requirements,” said Alberto Sempere, Director of Services, Innovation and Partnerships, Telefónica Tech.
“Businesses around the world make trillions of dollars of decisions every day. Perplexity is a valuable tool for them because of our relentless focus on accurate and trustworthy answers powered by AI. Telefonica is a natural partner to offer Perplexity Pro because they deeply understand these needs of business decision-makers,” added Emily Jorgens, Head of Enterprise Parternships, Perplexity.
The collaboration between Telefónica Tech and Perplexity for the B2B segment consolidates the relationship between the two companies and allows Telefónica to enter the market with a broad offering for each type of customer.
In doing so, Telefónica strengthens its commitment to democratising AI and enhancing its strategic alliance with Perplexity. The relationship between Telefónica and Perplexity dates back to October 2024 when Wayra, Telefónica’s corporate venture capital arm, announced its investment in Perplexity.
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