2025-04-24
Perplexity is building a browser in part to collect customer data for targeted ads
AI company Perplexity announced in February that it was building its own browser called Comet. In a recent interview with the TBPN podcast, CEO Aravind Srinivas gave some insight as to why the business appeared to be branching out from its artificial intelligence focus: It's to collect user data and sell them targeted advertisements.
"That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the a [...]
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Perplexity's Comet AI browser is available now for $200 per month
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Perplexity sued by Japanese media giants for stealing information and presenting false information
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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again
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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser
Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venm [...]
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