After the many rumors around a Affairs by Meta or Apple last June, and more recently the Launch of Perplexity Max its premium subscription at $ 200 per month which competes with Chatgpt, the company has just made a new announcement which could prove decisive for its future.
If Perplexity had already positioned itself on the research ground to compete with Google, the start-up well to reoffend by officially launching its new Comet navigator.
A browser that promotes interactions
As can be seen in the demonstration video broadcast this Wednesday, the new Perplexity browser stands out mainly by its Integration of an AI assistant.
According to a Post on X of Aravind Srinivas CEO of Perplexity, Comet’s ambition is to be able to transform web navigation by bringing more interactions. Baptized Comet Assistant the AI assistant of the browser can intervene directly in the tabs, navigate on web pages, or even complete forms.
Among the use cases identified and visible in the presentation video, we can see that Comet can & nbsp:
- Carry out a route on a Google Maps card For a visit to London from a given point
- Summarize Thread on Reddit where actor Keanu Reeves answered questions from Internet users
- Show a precise YouTube video from a simple vocal research
Perplexity also announced that his browser would be able to Book hotels and ofbuy products on online sales sites.
A first step towards IA agents
Even if the Perplexity browser is Built around chromium an engine already used by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, the start-up has not only launched this project to compete with Google.
According to Aravind Srinivas, launching a browser project like Comet would also be a way of advancing towards the creation of IA agents, which could be the real objective of Perplexity.
Access still too limited & nbsp?
Although Perplexity did not communicate on the official launch of its Comet browser yesterday, this remains to be balanced. Indeed, the browser is currently only accessible to Perplexity Max users and to users who register On a waiting list.
However, Perplexity aims to launch its browser to the general public thereafter, even if no date has been announced. Moreover, Perplexity recently announced that she had associated with Motorola For Comet to be the default browser of future RAZR smartphones.
