Media companies will get paid out of a $42.5 million pool when their articles are used by Perplexity’s web browser.

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.

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