Perplexity AI Ventures Beyond Seek With 'Comet,' An Agentic Browser To Rival google Chrome.
Aravind srinivas, who led Perplexity AI, has confirmed that it will likely be launching a brand new browser known as 'Comet' for providing an agentic search experience.
The enterprise launched a vague teaser video for the browser and opened a waitlist, but there is no assurance yet on when it's going to launch or what capabilities it's going to have.
Perplexity's AI-powered seek is one of the few alternatives seeking to take on Google's dominance within the search engine market. With the Comet browser, Srinivasan is aiming to do the identical thing, this time in an even more crowded market and one wherein Google's dominance is more stabilized.
As in line with Similarweb statistics from january 2025, google Chrome is the undisputed leader inside the web browser class, having sixty-three point fifty-five percent of the market share, with Apple's Safari coming in a distant 2nd at twenty-one point eighty-one percent and Microsoft's Edge at five point sixty-two percent.
Perplexity CEO aravind srinivas additionally seems to be privy to the scale of the project he faces in getting into the browser industry, as in a next X (formerly Twitter) post, he shared a chart of google Chrome taking up Internet Explorer and talked about the significance of following 'full technique.'.
It takes some time to trade the status quo. However, patience and staying power will pay off. Chrome took 5 years to get ahead of IE in terms of adoption. What matters is offering a wonderful revel in to the user relentlessly for numerous years. not simply one release. the overall technique subjects." srinivas wrote in his publication.
In yet every other post, srinivas asked the customers for tips about 'center browsing enhancements' that google Chrome hasn't delivered for a while. He additionally requested them not to mention the usual AI capabilities like Deep research and different primary agentic workflows, suggesting that those functions may additionally already be within the plans for the brand new browser.
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