Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “reply” engine, has simply launched its personal net browser. The browser, known as Comet, incorporates Perplexity’s AI search instruments and assistant in a means that CEO Aravind Srinivas says “transforms complete shopping classes into single, seamless interactions.”
Comet will solely be out there to customers who subscribe to the $200 monthly Perplexity Max plan earlier than rolling out extra broadly on an invite-only foundation. The browser makes use of Perplexity as its major search engine, which serves up AI-generated responses to queries based mostly on outcomes from across the net. It’s additionally supposed to have the ability to purchase merchandise in your behalf and enable you to ebook motels.
The brand new AI-powered browser comes as Perplexity continues to problem Google’s dominance in search. Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its assistant on its new Razr telephones this yr, one thing Srinvas advised The Verge in April that the startup wouldn’t have occurred if Google hadn’t gone by means of an antitrust trial. “They might have bullied a whole lot of the OEMs,” Srinvas stated.
Srinvas stated in April that Perplexity is launching a browser as a result of it “may be the easiest way to construct brokers.” Other than the Perplexity’s search integration, Comet comes with a built-in AI assistant that may reply questions on what you’re seeing in your display screen, just like Gemini’s integration with Google Chrome.
The AI assistant lives in Comet’s sidebar, and along with summarizing or explaining textual content, it may well additionally perform agentic duties like reserving a gathering, sending an e-mail, or shopping for a product. Srinivas says Perplexity plans to “proceed to launch new options and performance for Comet” sooner or later.
The browser is simply out there on Home windows and Mac for now, and in addition lets you import your extensions, settings, and bookmarks in “one click on.”
