Comet now available for everyone, background assistants, and Slack connector
Comet, Now Available for Everyone
The Comet browser is now available to download for everyone in the world for free at perplexity.ai/comet. In the past three months millions have joined the Comet waitlist looking for a powerful personal AI assistant and new ways to use the internet. Now, you can see for yourself how the internet is better on Comet.
Background Assistants
What’s better than an AI assistant that helps you achieve your tasks? The answer: multiple assistants carrying out work for you at the same time. With Comet, Max subscribers can now launch many agentic tasks in parallel and manage confirmations and follow-ups in a single page. Look for the Background Assistants page in Comet to get started.
Slack Connector
You can now connect Perplexity to Slack. Get answers from and send messages to your Slack workspace, all directly within Perplexity.
Go to your Connectors page to enable the Slack connector. Enterprise administrators can configure connector access for their organisation on the Permissions page.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 4.5 Thinking
These new models from Anthropic are now available for Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers across Web, iOS, and Android and excel at agentic reasoning and complex coding tasks. Toggle thinking mode on and off via a new “With reasoning” control on Web.
Maps for Places Search
Looking for a restaurant, hotel, or travel destination? You’ll now see them on a map across Web and iOS, making local search and discovery more immersive. When combined with informed, visual answers for places, there’s never been a better way to research your next destination.
Currency Conversion
Get real-time conversion rates for international currencies, cryptocurrencies, and even gold and silver directly in Perplexity answers. Try searching “what’s $100 in jpy”, “BTC to AUD”, or “convert gold to dollars” to see it in action. Now available on web and iOS; coming soon to Android.
Discover Search
Search the latest news and stories on any subject with Discover. Whether it’s recent IPO updates for a certain company, information on scientific breakthroughs in a particular niche, or real estate prices local to your area, you can now search for the unique news topics that matter most to you directly within Discover. Now available on iOS.
Study Mode
Study Mode is now available to everyone using Perplexity. When you want to learn something step-by-step, you can now:
- Learn through conversation rather than getting an instant answer (try: “Explain photosynthesis to me step-by-step”)
- Get answers tailored to your level of knowledge
- Generate interactive flashcards and quizzes (try: “Make me a quiz about Comets”)
