Aravind Srinivas, main enforcement serviceman Perplexity AI, during a quality league astatine the SK Telecom Co. office successful Seoul, South Korea, connected Wednesday, Sept.4, 2024.
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Perplexity AI connected Thursday announced that its artificial-intelligence-powered web browser Comet is disposable worldwide, and volition beryllium escaped to users.
The Comet browser is designed to service arsenic a idiosyncratic adjunct that tin hunt the web, signifier tabs, draught emails, store and more, according to Perplexity. The startup initially launched Comet successful July to Perplexity Max subscribers for $200 a month, and the waitlist has ballooned to "millions" of people, the institution said.
Tune successful astatine 8:10 a.m. ET Friday arsenic Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas joins CNBC TV to sermon the merchandise of its AI browser Comet to users for free. Watch successful existent time connected CNBC+ oregon the CNBC Pro stream.
Perplexity's determination to supply Comet for escaped could assistance it pull much users arsenic it works to fend disconnected rivals similar Google, OpenAI and Anthropic that person their ain AI browser offerings.
In September, Google rolled retired Gemini successful its Chrome browser, Anthropic announced a browser-based AI cause successful August and OpenAI announced Operator, an cause that uses a browser to implicit tasks, successful January. Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 cardinal bid for Google's Chrome browser successful August.
Perplexity is champion known for its AI-powered hunt motor that gives users elemental answers to questions and links retired to the archetypal root worldly connected the web. After the institution was accused of plagiarizing contented from media outlets, it launched a revenue-sharing model with publishers past year.
The institution besides introduced Comet Plus successful August, which is simply a subscription that gives users entree to contented from "trusted publishers and journalists," according to a blog post. Perplexity said Tuesday that CNN, Condé Nast, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Le Monde, and Le Figaro are its inaugural publishing partners.
Perplexity said further features are besides connected the way. The institution teased a mobile mentation of Comet and a diagnostic called Background Assistant, which tin enactment connected aggregate tasks simultaneously and asynchronously.
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