Perplexity’s Comet AI browser is out there now for $200 per 30 days

Comet, Perplexity’s AI-powered net browser, is available now for folks paying for the corporate’s $200 per 30 days Perplexity Max subscription. The corporate supplied the browser in a beta type for select Windows users in June, however now it’s going to be a part of Google Chrome and The Browser Company’s Dia in incorporating AI fashions straight into net searching expertise.

At its easiest, Comet is a streamlined browser (constructed on Chrome’s browser tech) that makes use of Perplexity as its default search engine. At any level you possibly can name up the corporate’s AI in a sidebar to ask questions, summarize textual content, and significant to the corporate’s pitch for the way forward for AI, take actions for you, like sending an e-mail, wanting up instructions on Google Maps or buying a product.

Perplexity’s search outcomes pull data from the net into AI-generated reply, identical to ChatGPT or Gemini, with the entire doubts round accuracy that means. Like its rivals, Perplexity has crawled the net for coaching knowledge to feed its AI and has even been sued by publications for allegedly permitting its search engine to breed information articles of their entirety when prompted.

The corporate has been open about its interest to make use of net browsers to gather buyer knowledge for goal advertisements. Perplexity even wants to purchase Chrome, assuming Google is pressured to spin it off on account of its antitrust trial. Whether or not or not that occurs, Comet affirms the tech business’s curiosity in making the net browser the default interface for AI. Because it seems, browser historical past makes for a superb approach to get a relentless stream of recent details about an individual that AI can leverage.

Perplexity says it’s going to ship invitations to folks on the Comet waitlist over the summer season. You may sign up for the waitlist on the corporate’s web site, or pay for Perplexity Max and use the brand new browser proper now.