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Perplexity AI has announced its entry into the web browser market with Comet, an AI-driven browser designed for "agentic search." The company teased the new browser on X, launching a signup list but providing few details on its features or how it will differentiate itself from established competitors like Google Chrome and Safari. Perplexity hopes to leverage its AI-powered search engine to offer a more relevant search experience, potentially allowing users to find answers without needing to navigate traditional search results pages.
Perplexity's move into the crowded browser market signals its ambition to control more of the search experience and expand its product portfolio. Founded in 2022, the company has raised over $500 million and is valued at $9 billion. It fields more than 100 million queries each week and has been ramping up monetization through advertising and e-commerce. While the browser space is dominated by industry giants, Perplexity may be betting that its search engine user base and innovative AI integration can help Comet gain traction. Recommended read:
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Perplexity AI has launched its Deep Research tool, joining Google and OpenAI in offering advanced AI-powered research capabilities. This new feature aims to provide more in-depth answers with real citations, catering to professional use cases. Deep Research is currently available on the web and will soon be added to Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Users can access it by selecting "Deep Research" from a drop-down menu when submitting a query in Perplexity.
Perplexity's Deep Research leverages Deepseek-R1, allowing the service to be offered at a significantly lower price than competitors like OpenAI. While OpenAI charges $200 per month for 100 queries, Perplexity offers 500 queries per day for $20 per month for its pro subscription, with basic access available for free with daily query limits for non-subscribers. The tool works by iteratively searching, reading documents, and reasoning about what to do next, similar to how a human researcher would approach a new topic, producing detailed reports in one to two minutes. Recommended read:
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Perplexity AI has launched Deep Research, an AI-powered research tool aimed at competing with OpenAI and Google Gemini. Using DeepSeek-R1, Perplexity is offering comprehensive research reports at a much lower cost than OpenAI, with 500 queries per day for $20 per month compared to OpenAI's $200 per month for only 100 queries. The new service automatically conducts dozens of searches and analyzes hundreds of sources to produce detailed reports in one to two minutes.
Perplexity claims Deep Research performs 8 searches and consults 42 sources to generate a 1,300-word report in under 3 minutes. The company says that Deep Research tool works particularly well for finance, marketing, and technology research. The service is launching first on web browsers, with iOS, Android, and Mac versions planned for later release. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas stated he wants to keep making it faster and cheaper for the interest of humanity. Recommended read:
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Perplexity has introduced Perplexity Assistant, an AI agent now available within their Android application. This assistant is designed to aid users with daily tasks by utilizing reasoning, search, and the ability to perform actions across multiple apps. Examples include hailing a ride or searching for music, and it leverages Perplexity's search engine for access to real-time web information. The assistant is also multimodal, meaning it can use the phone's camera to identify objects or answer questions about items on the screen. Perplexity Assistant can maintain context across multiple interactions, allowing users to perform complex tasks such as researching and booking restaurant reservations.
The initial release of Perplexity Assistant will be free for users and is available in 15 languages. Perplexity acknowledges that certain actions may not always work correctly but aims to address these issues in future updates. Alongside this, Perplexity has also launched a GenAI search API called Sonar Pro which they claim has the best answer quality based on benchmark findings. Recommended read:
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Perplexity AI has launched Perplexity Assistant, an AI-powered agent for Android devices, which is capable of performing multi-app actions such as hailing a ride. This service is currently free for users and available in 15 languages. The company has also introduced Sonar, a new GenAI search API, which they are marketing as the most affordable option in the market.
Perplexity's Sonar API comes in two versions: Sonar and Sonar Pro. Sonar is the basic version, priced at $1 per million tokens for both input and output, while Sonar Pro is aimed at more complex tasks and costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, offering more in-depth answers. Sonar Pro is reportedly the best performing model on ‘factuality’ in SimpleQA benchmarks. Companies like Zoom and Doximity have integrated the API, with Zoom using it for real-time, private searches within video calls, and Doximity using it to retrieve concise answers to medical questions for physicians. Recommended read:
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