Perplexity’s Comet AI browser is on the mark...

Comet, Perplexity’s AI-powered internet browser, is available now for individuals paying for the corporate’s $200 monthly Perplexity Max subscription. The corporate supplied the browser in a beta kind for select Windows users in June, however now it will be a part of Google Chrome and The Browser Company’s Dia in incorporating AI fashions straight into internet shopping expertise.

At its easiest, Comet is a streamlined browser (constructed on Chrome’s browser tech) that makes use of Perplexity as its default search engine. At any level you possibly can name up the corporate’s AI in a sidebar to ask questions, summarize textual content, and demanding to the corporate’s pitch for the way forward for AI, take actions for you, like sending an electronic mail, wanting up instructions on Google Maps or buying a product.

Perplexity’s search outcomes pull data from the online into AI-generated reply, similar to ChatGPT or Gemini, with all the doubts round accuracy that means. Like its rivals, Perplexity has crawled the online for coaching knowledge to feed its AI and has even been sued by publications for allegedly permitting its search engine to breed information articles of their entirety when prompted.

The corporate has been open about its interest to make use of internet browsers to gather buyer knowledge for goal advertisements. Perplexity even wants to purchase Chrome, assuming Google is compelled to spin it off on account of its antitrust trial. Whether or not or not that occurs, Comet affirms the tech trade’s curiosity in making the online browser the default interface for AI. Because it seems, browser historical past makes for a superb solution to get a continuing stream of recent details about an individual that AI can leverage.

Perplexity says it will ship invitations to individuals on the Comet waitlist over the summer time. You’ll be able to sign up for the waitlist on the corporate’s web site, or pay for Perplexity Max and use the brand new browser proper now.