“As a substitute of hiring yet one more particular person in your group, you may simply use Comet to complement all of the work that you just’re doing,” Srinivas mentioned on CNBC’s Squawk Field.
Srinivas mentioned that Comet is supposed to turn out to be a “true private assistant” which might work with out human intervention.
“The longer term is AI’s which can be simply doing be just right for you, at the same time as you sleep, with out you even asking for it. It is auto drafting your responses to emails… It is scheduling your conferences in your behalf and shifting issues round even with out you asking for it,” Srinivas mentioned.
On Thursday, Perplexity AI made its Comet browser free for all free, Professional and Max customers. Launched in July, the browser was introduced to Perplexity Pro users in India final month.
The AI company additionally unveiled Comet Plus, which can be a brand new subscription plan for each people and AIs to eat information. The standalone subscription plan for the service will price $5 per 30 days and can be bundled with Perplexity Professional and Max.
Initially, Comet Plus will host content material from CNN, Conde Nast (publishers of The New Yorker, Wired, Architectural Digest and others), Fortune, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Los Angeles Occasions and The Washington Put up.
As introduced in August, the collaborating publishers can be paid for consumer engagement, consumer agent actions, and indexing of content material. Perplexity pays them out of a $42.5 million income pool for the information it makes use of to reply queries, Wall Road Journal had reported.