Perplexity AI on Wednesday launched a brand new synthetic intelligence-powered net browser referred to as Comet within the startup’s newest effort to compete within the shopper web market in opposition to corporations like Google and Microsoft.
Comet will enable customers to attach with enterprise functions like Slack and ask complicated questions by way of voice and textual content, in accordance with a quick demo video Perplexity launched on Wednesday.
The browser is on the market to Perplexity Max subscribers, and the corporate stated invite-only entry will roll out to a waitlist over the summer time. Perplexity Max prices customers $200 per thirty days.
“We constructed Comet to let the web do what it has been begging to do: to amplify our intelligence,” Perplexity wrote in a weblog submit Wednesday.
Perplexity is finest recognized for its AI-powered search engine that offers customers easy solutions to questions and hyperlinks out to the unique supply materials on the net. After the corporate was accused of plagiarizing content material from media shops, it launched a revenue-sharing mannequin with publishers final 12 months.
In Could, Perplexity was in late-stage talks to boost $500 million at a $14 billion valuation, a supply acquainted confirmed to CNBC. The startup was additionally approached by Meta earlier this 12 months a couple of potential acquisition, however the corporations didn’t finalize a deal.
“We’ll proceed to launch new options and performance for Comet, enhance experiences primarily based in your suggestions, and focus relentlessly–as we at all times have–on constructing correct and reliable AI that fuels human curiosity,” Perplexity stated Wednesday.
