Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “reply” engine, has simply launched its personal net browser. The browser, called 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 per month 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 primarily based on outcomes from across the net. It’s additionally supposed to have the ability to buy products in your behalf and help you book hotels.
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, something Srinvas told The Verge in April that the startup wouldn’t have occurred if Google hadn’t gone by means of an antitrust trial. “They’d have bullied a variety of the OEMs,” Srinvas mentioned.
Srinvas mentioned in April that Perplexity is launching a browser as a result of it “is perhaps one of the best ways to construct brokers.” Apart from 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 likewise permits you to import your extensions, settings, and bookmarks in “one click on.”