Perplexity’s Comet Browser Is Now Available To Everyone For Free

After launching to subscribers consenting to fork retired hundreds of dollars a period this summer, Perplexity’s agentic AI browser Comet is now disposable to everyone for free. “The net is amended connected Comet,” nan institution says, promising to stay free everlastingly arsenic it styles nan browser arsenic a superior challenger to Google’s Chrome. 

Comet puts AI astatine nan bosom of nan browsing experience. It incorporates Perplexity’s AI hunt devices and a individual AI adjunct that, successful nan company’s words, really “travels nan web with” users, alternatively of being “tacked onto a accepted browser.” It’s expected to make surfing nan web simpler and thief you pinch tasks for illustration shopping, booking trips, and general life admin. To get nan company’s words again: you “get much done.”

The AI-powered browser launched successful July, though was only disposable for users who subscribed to nan $200 per period Perplexity Max plan. Later, Perplexity expanded this to see “select” subscribers of its cheaper Pro scheme and fortunate invitees connected what nan institution says is now a millions-strong waitlist. No subscription astatine each will beryllium needed to usage Comet going forward, nan institution says.

As good arsenic its browser, Perplexity is making its Comet Plus contented disposable for free too. The program, which launched successful August arsenic a standalone $5-a-month subscription, gives users entree to curated news contented successful a strategy CEO Aravind Srinivas likened to Apple’s Apple News+. 

Perplexity is not unsocial successful its quest to bring AI to nan internet. Google has infused Gemini into Chrome, The Browser Company — nan makers of nan Arc browser — is going each successful connected Dia, and Opera conscionable launched its ain AI browser, Neon.