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.

Perplexity is launching a new content subscription called Comet Plus that gives subscribers access to premium articles and shares 80 percent of the revenue with publishers.

Last week, a New York federal court denied Perplexity’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit from News Corp. – which owns The Post and Dow Jones – accusing the AI startup of ripping off its copyrighted