{"id":57964,"date":"2025-10-02T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/57964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:11:11","slug":"perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-is-now-free-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/57964\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity&#8217;s Comet AI browser is now free for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Perplexity&#8217;s Comet AI browser is now free for everyone worldwide. The browser had previously only been available to Perplexity Max users <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-is-available-now-for-200-per-month-180955616.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:at a cost of $200 per month;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at a cost of $200 per month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">The company says that it has &#8220;become the most sought-after browser on the internet with millions signed up to the waitlist.&#8221; Now that waitlist is gone and everyone can get to downloading. Perplexity went on to note that this isn&#8217;t a limited-time promotion as Comet &#8220;will always be free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">For the uninitiated, Comet is a browser that uses Perplexity AI as the default search engine. A chatbot accompanies each search in the sidebar and users can ask it to answer questions, summarize text and, in some cases, take actions like sending emails or looking up directions. Comet pulls information from the web and correlates that data into AI-generated responses, so make sure to double-check the important stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">This is just the latest step for the company. Perplexity is currently working on a mobile version of the browser and an integrative AI assistant. It&#8217;s also far from the only company stuffing AI into a web browser. Comet joins <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-is-bringing-gemini-to-chrome-so-it-can-answer-questions-about-your-open-tabs-174903787.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Google Chrome;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Chrome<\/a> and <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/the-browser-companys-new-ai-browser-rolls-out-to-private-beta-testers-170311014.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Browser Company&#039;s Dia;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Browser Company&#8217;s Dia<\/a> in this effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perplexity&#8217;s Comet AI browser is now free for everyone worldwide. The browser had previously only been available to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,18247,61,60,22905,80],"class_list":["post-57964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-comet","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-perplexity","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}