Perplexity is launching a new revenue-sharing plan for publishers that will pay them every time its AI assistants use an article to answer a question, The Wall Street Journal reports. Perplexity is launching the plan (and partially paying for it) with a new Comet Plus subscription that gives subscribers access “to premium content from a group of trusted publishers and journalists.”
Comet Plus costs $5 per month, and based on Perplexity’s description, it’s primarily designed to account for the actions its Comet Agent (included in the Comet browser) takes on websites, which aren’t considered in existing publisher deals. “When you ask Perplexity to synthesize recent coverage of an industry trend,
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