On July 9, 2025, Perplexity, the fast-growing AI platform, soft-launched Comet, a new web browser meant to compete with Google Chrome and Safari.
In many ways, Perplexity Comet functions similarly to other browsers; you can search the web, open tabs and create bookmarks. What makes Comet different is its Assistant button, which, when clicked, pulls up a chatbot. This chatbot has two big features: It can analyze and answer questions about the contents of your browser, and it can open up its own sub-browsers in which AI agents can actually take actions, like adding items to a cart or composing a tweet.
In a video shared by Perplexity, a user navigates to a Reddit AMA with Keanu Reeves. The user presses the Assistant button, asks the chatbot to summarize the answers and the chatbot quickly writes out a brief summary of Keanu’s answers. Perplexity also showed how users can ask Comet to shop online for them, parse through browser-based email clients and make travel plans by launching multiple agents simultaneously.
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