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Perplexity Computer can now control the user's Google Chrome browser from Perplexity's Mac and Windows apps. After users complete a one-time setup through the new Chrome extension, they can have the agent perform local browsing tasks in Chrome. Perplexity says the feature is now available to all Computer users on the Mac and Windows apps. There is currently no further information on subsequent developments.
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Perplexity Computer can control the browser through a Chrome extension
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October 31 AI Daily Brief: Anthropic subscription renamed, Grok Bot 1.0 released
Anthropic renamed Max 5x to Max ($100) and Max 20x to Ultra ($200), and the verified Ultra version removed the 5-hour limit; the maximum request size for the Claude API increased from 32 MB to 128 MB. The first stable version of xAI's Grok Bot 1.0 is available for download, with new per-bot voice and voice language settings. NVIDIA open-sourced the 9.6M-parameter voice cleanup model RE-USE, and Pika released the open-weight video model H3 Flex.
Oct 30
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Perplexity Computer Can Control the Local Browser via a Chrome Extension
Perplexity Computer can now control the user's Google Chrome browser from Perplexity's Mac and Windows apps. After a one-time setup via the new Chrome extension, users can have the agent perform local browsing tasks on Chrome. Perplexity says the feature is now available to all Computer users on the Mac and Windows apps.