{"id":51733,"date":"2025-10-02T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/51733\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:55:07","slug":"perplexitys-comet-browser-is-available-to-everyone-everywhere-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/51733\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity\u2019s Comet browser is available to everyone, everywhere, for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">After launching to subscribers willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month this summer, Perplexity\u2019s agentic AI browser Comet is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/comet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now available to everyone for free<\/a>. \u201cThe internet is better on Comet,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/hub\/blog\/comet-is-now-available-to-everyone-worldwide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the company says<\/a>, promising to remain free forever as it styles the browser as a serious challenger to Google\u2019s Chrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Comet puts AI at the heart of the browsing experience. It incorporates Perplexity\u2019s AI search tools and a personal AI assistant that, in the company\u2019s words, actually \u201ctravels the web with\u201d users, instead of being \u201ctacked onto a traditional browser.\u201d It\u2019s supposed to make surfing the web simpler and help you with tasks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/18\/24299574\/perplexity-ai-search-engine-buy-products\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shopping<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/9\/24339020\/perplexity-tripadvisor-integration-hotels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">booking trips<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/709025\/perplexity-comet-ai-browser-chrome-competitor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">general life admin<\/a>. To borrow the company\u2019s words again: you \u201cget more done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The AI-powered browser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/703037\/perplexity-ai-web-browser-comet-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in July<\/a>, though was only available for users who subscribed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/697108\/perplexity-now-has-a-200-per-month-ai-subscription-too\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$200 per month Perplexity Max plan<\/a>. Later, Perplexity expanded this to include \u201cselect\u201d subscribers of its cheaper Pro plan and lucky invitees on what the company says is now a millions-strong waitlist. No subscription at all will be needed to use Comet going forward, the company says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As well as its browser, Perplexity is making its Comet Plus content available for free too. The program, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perplexity.ai\/hub\/blog\/introducing-comet-plus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> in August as a standalone $5-a-month subscription, gives users access to curated news content in a scheme CEO Aravind Srinivas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-25\/perplexity-to-let-publishers-share-in-revenue-from-ai-searches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likened<\/a> to Apple\u2019s Apple News+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After launching to subscribers willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month this summer, Perplexity\u2019s agentic AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,43,920,125],"class_list":["post-51733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}