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11 days ago
Snap Inc. and Perplexity will integrate Perplexity’s AI answer engine into Snapchat in early 2026, letting nearly 1 billion users ask questions and get verified answers inside the app. Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million over a year. This expands Snapchat’s AI features alongside its My AI chatbot, aiming to enhance discovery and learning through conversational AI within the app.
Markifact automates the creation and uploading of Meta ads using AI. Users generate custom visuals and matching ad copy by writing detailed prompts and uploading reference images. Ads are uploaded in a paused status for review before going live. This tool allows for quick creation of multiple ad variations, adaptation to market trends, and scaling of campaigns without needing extensive design or copywriting resources.
1 months ago
Perplexity launched the Comet browser worldwide for free, shifting from a waitlist. Comet encourages curiosity, increasing user questions by 6-18X, and features a personal AI assistant aiding research, meetings, coding, and tasks. It offers Background Assistants for multitasking and plans a mobile app with voice tech. Comet Plus supports quality journalism by partnering with reputable publishers to improve the internet experience.
2 months ago
Perplexity launched Comet Plus, a $5 monthly subscription that pays publishers when users read their work or AI uses it to answer questions. It offers premium content access and compensates publishers for human visits, AI-generated answers, and agent actions, reflecting modern internet use. This model supports quality journalism, improves user experience, and integrates AI with publishing for a better web. Pro and Max subscribers get it included.
2 months ago
Perplexity Comet AI browser is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, where malicious hidden instructions in web content trick the AI into accessing sensitive data. Traditional web security fails here. Mitigations include separating user commands from page content, requiring user confirmation for sensitive actions, and isolating agentic browsing. This shows the need for new security models in AI browsers as they gain power.
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Perplexity offered $34.5 billion to buy Chrome from Google, pledging to keep Chromium open source and invest $3 billion. It will keep Google as Chrome's default search engine. The bid follows DOJ's push to force Google to sell Chrome over monopoly issues. Chrome dominates with 68% market share. Perplexity's offer exceeds its $18 billion valuation and $1.5 billion raised. Perplexity also launched Comet browser and bid to merge with TikTok.
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Perplexity uses stealth crawlers that change user agents and IPs to bypass no-crawl directives and ignore robots.txt files. Cloudflare blocked these undeclared crawlers after tests showed Perplexity accessed restricted content despite blocks. Unlike OpenAI, Perplexity evades detection and violates crawling norms. Cloudflare added rules to block such AI crawling, protecting customers and promoting transparent, respectful bot behavior.
4 months ago
Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-powered browser challenging Google Search, available first to $200/month Max plan subscribers and invitees. It features Perplexity's AI search engine and Comet Assistant, which automates tasks like summarizing emails and managing tabs. Comet aims to enhance curiosity, organize digital life, boost productivity, and provide personalized, intelligent browsing with privacy and usability focus.
6 months ago
Perplexity partners with PayPal to enable agentic commerce on its Pro platform, allowing U.S. users to shop instantly via chat using PayPal or Venmo. This integration supports secure, seamless transactions with features like tokenized wallets and passkey checkouts. The collaboration aims to enhance conversational commerce, leveraging PayPal's global reach and security, challenging traditional shopping tools like Google Shopping.
8 months ago
Perplexity is launching a new web browser named Comet, which aims to reinvent browsing alongside its AI search engine. A sign-up list has been created, but details on features and release date are unclear. Comet will enter a competitive market with established players like Chrome and emerging alternatives like Dia. Perplexity hopes to leverage its existing user base for traction. The company is rapidly expanding its product offerings.
