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- Some PayPal and Venmo users tin present entree Comet for free.
- The connection includes a one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro.
- Comet is Perplexity's caller AI-centric web browser.
PayPal and Venmo users successful the US and different planetary markets tin present person aboriginal entree to Perplexity's highly anticipated Comet web browser, PayPal announced. The connection includes a 12-month escaped proceedings of Perplexity Pro, which usually has an yearly subscription outgo of $200.
Launched past month, Comet has been positioned by Perplexity arsenic a much dynamic, intuitive, and agentic alternative to competitors similar Chrome and Safari. The browser tin besides interact straight with your idiosyncratic email, calendar, notes, oregon different online assets, provided you assistance Perplexity entree to presumption those files.
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Comet was initially released to subscribers of Perplexity Max, the company's $200-a-month premium service, and besides to a tiny radical of aboriginal users who had signed up via a waitlist. PayPal's caller connection gives customers the accidental to skip the waitlist and acquisition 1 twelvemonth of Comet via Perplexity Pro escaped of charge.
Credit: PayPal
The concern could alteration Perplexity to dispersed the connection astir its caller browser by putting it successful the hands of millions of PayPal and Venmo users crossed the US and elsewhere. Like astir escaped trials, the thought is that the instrumentality volition go truthful embedded into galore users' regular lives that erstwhile the one-year play is up, a important fig volition opt to wage to proceed utilizing Perplexity Pro.
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"The Comet browser is similar a idiosyncratic shopper and idiosyncratic adjunct each successful one, truthful we're excited that PayPal users volition person aboriginal entree to Comet," Ryan Foutty, Perplexity's VP of business, said successful a statement. "In conjunction with Perplexity Pro, we're arming PayPal and Venmo customers with powerful, close AI that's utile passim their regular lives."
PayPal bought Venmo successful 2013 arsenic portion of its $800 cardinal acquisition of Braintree, the second platform's genitor company.
Perplexity Pro tin present beryllium accessed straight via PayPal's caller subscriptions hub, an in-app diagnostic that allows users to way and negociate their subscriptions to assorted apps. These apps are organized into categories similar entertainment, music, and news. The hub is presently disposable to US users and volition beryllium launched globally connected September 22.
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PayPal and Venmo users successful the US tin motion up present for their escaped 12-month proceedings of Perplexity Pro done the respective apps. Users successful Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, and Spain tin entree the escaped proceedings here.
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