New Delhi, April 29 -- Perplexity AI is finally bringing its chatbot to WhatsApp, taking it on par with Meta AI and ChatGPT that already have a prescence on the world's most poular messaging platform. Just like ChatGPT, Perplexity has released a number that can entered in WhatsApp to interact with the AI assitant to answer questions, check sources and even generate images.

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas in a post on X (formerly Twitter), highlighted that the chatbot could come in handy to tackle "Whatsapp forwards are dangerously filled with clickbaits and propaganda."

While WhatsApp has indeed been marred by a lot of propaganda and fake news, it isn't immediately clear how Perplexity aims to fight this ailment differently, given th...