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PayPal and Venmo users will get early access to a new artificial intelligence-based tool that could herald the payment company’s next steps with agentic commerce. Perplexity.AI’s Perplexity Pro, typically a $200 annual subscription, is now available to PayPal and Venmo users in a 12-month free trial. It is part of the subscription component within PayPal and Venmo.
PayPal and Venmo users in the United States and some global markets get early access to the AI tool, which is available in Perplexity’s Comet browser. Access to the browser is currently waitlisted, but PayPal and Venmo users get early access via the subscription hub in the respective apps. San Francisco-based Perplexity added PayPal to its Commerce Suite in May, enabling it to offer PayPal and Venmo as a payment method within its AI tool.
Comet can act as an integrated AI assistant as well as a personal shopper and personal assistant, Ryan Foutty, Perplexity vice president of business, says in a statement.
PayPal says the Perplexity Pro subscription is one of the first offers in its subscriptions hub. The hub is meant to provide users an easier way to view their recurring subscription payments, the company says. One feature is the ability to update a payment method across multiple subscription providers in a few taps without visiting each provider’s Web site separately, PayPal says. Payment options in addition to those offered by PayPal also can be used and cardholders can still receive rewards on credit cards they use.
Perplexity Pro is available to U.S. PayPal and Venmo users today with availability in some international markets later this month. PayPal says it began rolling out the subscription hub to U.S. customers over the past few weeks and it is now fully available to them.
