Overview

• Comet is now available to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month with broader access to follow via invite over the summer.
• Built on the Chromium framework, it supports existing Chrome extensions and PWAs while integrating large language models for real-time, citation-backed answers.
• A side-car AI assistant can compare products, book meetings, summarize content and autonomously execute multi-step tasks through agentic automation.
• All user data is stored locally and excluded from model training to prioritize privacy and give users full control over personalization.
• Perplexity AI faces criticism over content use from major publishers and reports of AI hallucinations in complex workflows, prompting a new publisher partnership program.