Perplexity AI, a promising competitor in the browsing field with financial support of Nvidia, now publicly addresses the same market and introduces the browsing solution known as Comet, an AI-powered web browser that is expected to redefine the ways one approaches internet use. The announcement was made on Wednesday, and Comet will compete directly with the market dominance of the Alphabet Google Chrome, which already owns more than 68 percent of the entire browser market.
Comet is not a regular browser (it is an AI-native platform) with an added advanced search engine that combines the most powerful search engine on the market a built-in assistant that will deal with research, product comparison, content summarisation, and meeting booking, all unified into one, and only one, interface.As CEO Aravind Srinivas emphasised on X, “Comet is a cognitive operating system, designed to live with users in their daily workflows,” highlighting the browser’s ambition to move beyond traditional navigation and become an agentic AI that can think, act, and decide on behalf of users.
Perplexity AI launches Comet: Features and user benefits
Comet comes with a series of most important features which can change the browsing scenario and have real benefits to the user. The Comet Assistant dwells in the side-bar, which allows users to go over emails, calendar activities, handle tabs, answer questions regarding the content on the web page, and even automate the purchase or appointment, all within the same page. Perplexity with AI-powered search as a default will provide fast, AI-based summaries and action steps to take, making research and decision-making much faster than normal search engines despite being more powerful.
The smooth integration is guaranteed because Comet is based on Chromium, which uses chrome’s extensions, and one click is sufficient to migrate bookmarks and settings so that a user will not feel lost when getting familiar with the new browser. An intense privacy orientation implies storing user data on-device and never utilizing in training a model to directly respond to the rising privacy and data-security concerns. Its hybrid artificial intelligent architecture design has implemented the combination of performing basic activities locally and delegating more complex operations to cloud-based APIs, providing optimal speed and privacy. Lastly, an integrated ad blocker, new tracker controls, and the ability to process sensitive workflows locally allow the user to have better control of the browsing experience, cutting distractions and improving security.
AI-Powered browser Comet: Availability
Comet is already available to subscribers of Perplexity Max at a price of 200 dollars per month and its wider availability will be phased in as invitations are extended in the course of the summer. Max subscription entails unrestricted access to Perplexity Labs, tester qualifications to features before the rest of the world, and the first choice of state-of-the-art AI models. Increasing the number of queries processed by 780 million in May 2025 and more than 20 percent monthly, Perplexity is investing in making Comet a first-hand competitor of Chrome, Safari, and Edge. Tech analyst Ben Parr commented on LinkedIn “Perplexity’s Comet is the most ambitious browser launch since Chrome, with agentic AI at its core. The browser wars just got interesting.”
Although the privacy-centered philosophy of Comet will probably be well-received among users who have concerns about their data being misused, Perplexity has been criticised in extensive media, such as News Corp, Forbes, Wired, and Dow Jones, after sharing their content without their informed consent or remuneration. Perplexity, in its turn, has established the publisher partnership program to work with news portals and discuss the issues.
Is Comet an AI-Powered browser to challenge Google Chrome?
Yes, Comet is an artificially intelligent browser, which Nvidia-supported Perplexity AI opened with the obvious intention of breaking Google Chrome dominance. With such future-oriented AI capabilities and features as an in-app assistant that helps summarise the content, manage the tasks, and search results powered by AI, Comet intends to present a new way of browsing, more intelligent, interactive and allowing the users to be in control of their privacy. Its flawless integration with the Chrome extensions and its high regard on privacy of user data is what makes it an intense competitor in the challenging world of browsers.
Perplexity AI is betting on a world where browsers are not only a passive gateway, but smart agents that foresee and satisfy the needs of users with Comet. Since the browser wars have intensified as of late with OpenAI, Google, and other entities pushing AI integration, Comet has become an element of a paradigm shift in web browsing, and it could change the way people will search, research, and otherwise operate online.
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