Everyone is currently fascinated by the developments in AI-based agent systems – even though it’s clear that a good part of it will be hype and nonsense.
But generally, the idea that AI is not just for chatting but can also do real things outside the chat window is good. We’ve already shown how the HybridAI system can, for example, call API functions in the background and how it is possible to control elements on a website via commands we developed, directly from the chat box.
Today, a new feature is being added, which, of course, is somewhat inspired by the current race for the best deep-research bot, but not just by that.
From now on, HybridAI bots can also send emails – but not ordinary emails, rather AI-based ones – and this is done with the currently most exciting ChatGPT competitor, Perplexity (which has also just released its deep-research agent). This is exciting because Perplexity is, on the one hand, a state-of-the-art LLM (a Llama variant, or alternatively, deep-seek). On the other hand, they make a big effort to be more current than all other LLMs, meaning up-to-date!
That’s why our first example yesterday was: “Send me a summary of JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference.” That was available just minutes(!) after the speech was held. But see for yourself:
We believe this will be very useful for certain bots, so for example, in the school sector, a student could say: send me a brief description of the topic ‘Präteritum.’ Or the Veggie-Diet bot could offer to send an email with a weekly plan:
We will next link this functionality with the system instructions of the bot so that this is taken into account when generating the email. There will also soon be “scheduled tasks” based on this, so something like “please send me a reminder every morning about my diet plan and a few meal suggestions.”