AI models need access to high-quality information to improve and continue being a one-stop shop for information. Publications are now inking licensing deals with AI companies to sell this content. Perplexity's move expands that to include data crawling for AI training and agentic use cases. First published on Aug. 25, 2025 at 1:35 p.m. PT.

Privately-owned AI player Perplexity plans to pay a group of premium publishers in a new service, Comet Plus, in which users can access a deep well of news, what the company calls an antidote to low-quality clickbait.

Comet Plus, a subscription service that gives Perplexity users access to premium content from a group of publishers and journalists, creates a revenue sharing program.