Aravind Srinivas, chief government officer Perplexity AI, throughout a information convention on the SK Telecom Co. headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Sept.4, 2024.
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Perplexity AI on Thursday introduced that its synthetic intelligence-powered internet browser Comet is out there worldwide, and might be free to customers.
The Comet browser is designed to function a private assistant that may search the net, arrange tabs, draft emails, store and extra, in keeping with Perplexity. The startup initially launched Comet in July to Perplexity Max subscribers for $200 a month, and the waitlist has ballooned to “thousands and thousands” of individuals, the corporate mentioned.
Tune in at 8:10 a.m. ET Friday as Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas joins CNBC TV to debate the discharge of its AI browser Comet to customers at no cost. Watch in actual time on CNBC+ or the CNBC Professional stream.
Perplexity’s resolution to supply Comet at no cost might assist it appeal to extra customers as it really works to fend off rivals like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic which have their very own AI browser choices.
In September, Google rolled out Gemini in its Chrome browser, Anthropic introduced a browser-based AI agent in August and OpenAI unveiled Operator, an agent that makes use of a browser to finish duties, in January. Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid for Google’s Chrome browser in August.
Perplexity is greatest identified for its AI-powered search engine that provides customers easy solutions to questions and hyperlinks out to the unique supply materials on the net. After the corporate was accused of plagiarizing content material from media retailers, it launched a revenue-sharing mannequin with publishers final yr.
The corporate additionally launched Comet Plus in August, which is a subscription that provides customers entry to content material from “trusted publishers and journalists,” in keeping with a weblog publish. Perplexity mentioned Tuesday that CNN, Condé Nast, The Washington Submit, Los Angeles Instances, Fortune, Le Monde and Le Figaro are its inaugural publishing companions.
Perplexity mentioned extra options are additionally on the way in which. The corporate teased a cellular model of Comet and a function known as Background Assistant, which may work on a number of duties concurrently and asynchronously.
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