Perplexity's Comet Ai Browser Is Hurtling Toward Chrome - How To Try It

zuperia/Getty Images

AI hunt start-up Perplexity has ramped up its title pinch Google by releasing Comet, its caller web browser, connected Wednesday.

Built upon Perplexity's proprietary hunt engine, Comet is compatible pinch "all of your accustomed extensions, settings, and bookmarks," according to a Perplexity blog, meaning it's "a seamless switch" to make it your caller default browser. It's initially being launched for Mac and Windows, pinch support connected different platforms expected to get successful nan coming months. 

Also: Perplexity joins high-powered, high-priced AI title - here's everything 'Max' includes

Perplexity CEO and cofounder Aravind Srivinas wrote on X Thursday greeting that Comet would beryllium disposable connected Android devices soon. 

"Comet reimagines nan browser from nan crushed up," Perplexity wrote connected its website. "It actively helps you ask, understand, and retrieve what you see. It connects nan dots astatine lightning velocity and assists pinch distracting tasks that bargain your focus."

In nan tone of collaboration, Comet comes pinch its ain AI agent, Comet Assistant, which is integrated straight into nan browser and upon which users tin offload a assortment of elemental and mundane tasks. 

Also: How to instal Perplexity AI's app connected Linux (I recovered an easier way)

You tin inquire nan supplier to spell done your unread emails successful nan morning, propulsion retired nan messages from your coworkers, and supply a speedy summary of each. That requires, of course, handing complete your email information to Perplexity; nan aforesaid goes for your individual calendar, notes app, aliases thing other you'd for illustration Comet Assistant to beryllium capable to interact pinch and extract accusation from. 

It's a bully thought to reappraisal your workplace's AI policy, if it has one, aliases cheque pinch a superior earlier leaking immoderate potentially delicate accusation to Perplexity aliases immoderate different chatbot.

Comet is presently disposable to subscribers of nan company's $200-per-month premium service, Perplexity Max, and to a cohort of early users who were invited aft joining a waitlist. 

A caller era of AI-powered hunt

Launched successful 2022, Perplexity's hunt motor leverages a postulation of ample connection models (LLMs) to respond to personification queries pinch AI-generated summaries, links to sources, and suggestions for follow-up questions. The institution has marketed itself arsenic nan adjacent shape successful nan improvement of online search, pinch nan semipermanent extremity of usurping nan ascendant model, pioneered by Google, of responding to personification queries pinch a database of applicable web links.

Also: I tried Perplexity's assistant, and only 1 point stops it from being my default telephone AI

At nan aforesaid time, however, Google is building a caller early of Search pinch its arguable AI Overviews and nan much precocious released AI Mode, which operates a batch for illustration Perplexity. Meanwhile, executives astatine Apple, person reportedly floated nan thought of buying the up-and-coming AI hunt start-up, perchance to amended Safari. 

Even pinch nan motorboat of its caller web browser, which will compete pinch nan likes of Google Chrome and Safari, Perplexity has a agelong measurement to spell earlier it replaces Google arsenic nan default hunt motor for nan mostly of nan population. 

Google's exemplary has been inimical to exploration and learning, according to Perplexity: "the web -- our top root of accusation -- was ne'er designed to nurture curiosity; alternatively we've been asked to 'browse' it done a one-way lens," nan institution says connected its website. The implication, of course, is that nan company's caller exemplary of web hunt represents a collaboration betwixt humans and AI, some actively engaging 1 different to inquire deeper questions and observe caller knowledge.

Also: Google's AI Overviews will decimate your business - here's what you request to do

Still, nan online hunt industry's accelerating drift towards generative AI powerfully suggests that nan spot of Perplexity's position will only proceed to turn complete time.