Perplexity makes Comet AI browser available for free to all users, brings new ‘background assistant’ feature

Perplexity has announced that its Comet AI browser will now be available to use for free for all users. The browser was first rolled out to Perplexity’s \$200/\text{month} Max subscribers and became publicly available to all Pro subscribers last month as well.

​Comet browser brings in a number of agentic AI capabilities in order to take the throne from Google Chrome while also battling the likes of Browser Company’s Dia and Opera’s new Neon browser.