After launching to subscribers willing to fork out hundreds of dollars a month this summer, Perplexity\u2019s agentic AI browser Comet is now available to everyone for free. \u201cThe internet is better on Comet,\u201d the company says, promising to remain free forever as it styles the browser as a serious challenger to Google\u2019s Chrome.<\/p>\n
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 shopping<\/a>, booking trips<\/a>, and general life admin<\/a>. To borrow the company\u2019s words again: you \u201cget more done.\u201d<\/p>\n The AI-powered browser launched in July<\/a>, though was only available for users who subscribed to the $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 As well as its browser, Perplexity is making its Comet Plus content available for free too. The program, which launched<\/a> in August as a standalone $5-a-month subscription, gives users access to curated news content in a scheme CEO Aravind Srinivas 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,43,139,69,370,145],"class_list":["post-56709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}