It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company.

Deutsche Telekom is building a new Perplexity chatbot-powered “AI Phone,” the companies announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today. The new device will be revealed later this year and run “Magenta AI,

Artificial intelligence is the emphasis of Mobile World Congress this year, and T-Mobile’s parent company is making an AI concept from last year’s show a reality in 2025. On Monday, Deutsche Telekom formally announced its AI Phone, which ditches traditional apps and interaction in favor of voice commands powered by Perplexity Assistant.

Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s co-founder and CEO, said, ‘Perplexity is transitioning from just being an answer machine to an action machine’

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Perplexity, to develop an affordable “AI Phone”. Read More!

Speaking of detail, Perplexity has partnered with Deutsche Telekom to integrate its latest AI agent/multimodal Perplexity Assistant into the company’s new AI-powered phone. This smart assistant can understand and process language, text, and images, helping users with tasks like scheduling, writing emails, summarizing content, and translating.

Thanks to numerous partners such as Perplexity, Google and Eleven Labs, Deutsche Telekom is now actually launching an AI phone on the market.

Telekom asks why and proposes an “app-free experience”. Deutsche Telekom is launching its own smartphone on the market, where users no longer need to access apps thanks to a voice assistant equipped with artificial intelligence (AI).