Perplexity AI makes its AI browser globally available.
Perplexity AI has announced that it’s making its AI-powered browser Comet available worldwide. The browser was previously tested in July by paying subscribers of the Max plan ($200 per month), but according to the company, the waitlist has since grown to “millions” of interested users.
Competition with Google, OpenAI and Anthropic
According to the company, Comet is a free digital assistant that can do more than just display web pages. The browser helps users with searching, organizing tabs, composing emails, online shopping, and more, all through AI support. For example, you can connect Perplexity to Gmail and have the assistant execute commands like “find promotional emails I’ve never opened and unsubscribe from them.” Perplexity drafts an email requesting to unsubscribe from the newsletter or mailing list and can send it to the appropriate email addresses. You only need to click ‘send’.
Future plans
Besides the free desktop version of Comet, Perplexity is working on a mobile app and a new feature called Background Assistant, which can perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Earlier this year, Perplexity made an unsolicited bid of $34.5 billion for Google Chrome, though this proposal wasn’t taken seriously.
Perplexity isn’t the only one focusing on an AI browser. Google Chrome itself introduced Gemini in its browser. Microsoft did the same with Edge and Copilot, and Atlassian is also working on its own AI browser ‘Dia’. Vivaldi goes against the grain by deliberately not adding AI to its browser.
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