Perplexity just launched Pro Perks, offering Pro subscribers exclusive deals from brands like Visa, Cursor, and Eight Sleep. The search engine is also integrating premium datasets from Statista, PitchBook, and Wiley, giving users direct citations to expert financial, medical, and market research. AI search engines are expanding from web scrapers into comprehensive, high-value decision platforms.
Perplexity just partnered with PayPal to bring agentic shopping directly into search queries. Rolling out this summer to U.S. Pro subscribers, users can research products, book travel, or buy tickets and pay instantly via PayPal or Venmo without leaving the chat interface.
Perplexity just added a "Buy with Pro" button that lets US paid subscribers check out directly inside its AI search engine with free shipping. It also rolled out a Google Lens-style "Snap to Shop" visual search tool and AI product cards summarizing reviews and features.
Perplexity just rolled out a new reasoning focus mode in beta for Pro subscribers, tapping into OpenAI's o1-mini. It is built specifically for math, puzzles, and coding tasks, though it lacks web search integration for now and runs with strict rate limits.
Rabbit just teamed up with Perplexity to bring live, real-time web search to its $199 R1 pocket companion, eliminating knowledge cutoff dates entirely. Even better, the first 100,000 buyers get a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally runs $20 a month. It basically turns the quirky handheld into a real-time answer engine right out of the box.
