- The new perplexity comet browser promises an ia assistant who travels through you
- Cite joins other AI browsers with the aim of winning Chrome and other popular platforms.
- Although the companies of AI bet on the attractive users of their browser, their main attraction is uncertain.
Perplexity has officially made web browsers, embeding their AyT tools, their new chrome browser.
It is now available, initially only for some subscribers of the maximum plan of $ 200 a month of perplexity. At first glance, Comet is like most browsers, but Comet has a single sidebar. You can highlight a word, prayer or image, and commit you will discuss it. You can get a summary of an article, write a RSVP or organize the itinerary of your next vacation. There is also a privacy benefit. Perplexity says that all the processing of AI remains local and that it will not train its AI using the visits of its site.
It makes sense. Browsers are fundamental for modern work and life. If AI models can get hooked on our navigation flow, we will use them all the time. But will it stick?
The browser space has seen many failed Chrome clones, from the Yahoo browser to Internet Explorer 6. Chrome and Safari demand more than 90% market share worldwide. The subscription price itself could only be the largest deterrent. Perplexity’s kite costs $ 200 a month. Compared to the price of ‘free’, much more would be needed than an occasional paper summary for people to pay.
And although Comet shows how it could be useful as a perplexity form to merge its AI with a web browser, it is hardly just to follow the idea of increasing web browsers with AI. Operai is building a chatgpt native operator browser. Currently, the Navigators Company, Aria de Opera, Microsoft’s Edge with Copilot and others are providing similar services. And Google continually adds to Chrome, offering rapid descriptions, summaries and image explanations.
Ai sailing to the future
Perplexity, OpenAi and any other contender face the same challenge of making people change. And while it is possible that perplexity reaches a new group of users with the idea of an AI browser, they will have to face each other, as well as the improved versions with AI of Chrome, Safari and the others on the rise of brave to Firefox, each with their own launch for a better AI, more privacy or other attractive feature.
Or maybe, concerns about the technical problems and user privacy will keep a niche product with a limited attraction for hardcore users, a bit like Linux. The AI could be the future of navigation, a brief fashion or something intermediate.
The question of what makes it worth the effort must be answered. If Comet and others can rationalize the online experience and save us a lot of time, they will appear everywhere, but for now, they are news with a higher price. We will have to see if the improved browser with AI can find users you need to last.
