Google said to have blocked Motorola’s use of Perplexity AI, Bloomberg reports

Google’s (GOOGL) contract with Lenovo’s Motorola (LNVGY) blocked Perplexity AI from being the default assistant on new devices, Perplexity’s Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko testified at the search giant’s antitrust trial, Bloomberg’s Leah Nylen reports. Perplexity’s app will be preloaded on new devices, but not appear on the home screen, due to Google’s obligations. Perplexity’s AI app won’t be the default AI assistant “despite both parties wanting it to be,” Shevelenko told Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case. Motorola “can’t get out of their Google obligations and so they are unable to change the default assistant on the device.”