- The new browser of the Comète de Perplexity promises an AI assistant who travels the web for you
- Comet joins other AI browsers aimed at beating Chrome and other popular platforms.
- Although AI companies are betting on attractive users of their browser, their traditional call is uncertain.
Perplexity officially passed the shift to web browsers, integrating its AI tools into the comet, its new chrome browser.
It is available now, initially only to certain subscribers of the maximum plan of $ 200 per month of Perplexity. At first glance, the comet is like most browsers, but Comet has a unique sidebar. You can highlight a word, a sentence or an image, and the comet will discuss it with you. You can get a summary of an article, write an RSVP or organize the itinerary of your next vacation. There is also a privacy service. Perplexity says that all the treatment of AI remains local and that it will not form its AI using your visits to the site.
It makes sense. Navigators are at the heart of modern work and life. If AI models can hang on to our navigation flow, we will use them all the time. But will he stay?
The browser space has seen a lot of stranded chrome clones, from the Yahoo browser to the Internet Explorer 6. Chrome and Safari are demanding more than 90% market share in the world. The price of the subscription alone could be the most important deterrent. The Comète de Perplexity costs $ 200 per month. Compared to the price of the “free”, it would take much more than an occasional paper summary to make people pay.
And while Comet shows how it might be useful as a perplexity to merge his AI with a web browser, he is hardly the only one to continue the idea of increasing web browsers with AI. OPENAI builds a Natgpt-Native operator browser. Currently, the browser company, the Opera’s Aria, Microsoft’s Edge with Copilot, and others all provide similar services. And Google continuously adds AI to Chrome, offering rapid glimps, summaries and image explanations.
Ai sailing in the future
Perplexity, the Openai and any other competitor are faced with the same challenge to change people. And although it is possible that perplexity goes to a new group of users at the idea of an AI browser, they will then have to compete as well as the improved versions of AI of Chrome, Safari and the others on the rise of Brave to Firefox, each with their own height for a better AI, more confidentiality or another convincing characteristic.
Or, perhaps the concerns about the technical problems and the confidentiality of the users will keep the browser has a niche product with a limited attraction for hardcore users, a bit like Linux. AI could be the future of navigation, a brief fashion or something between the two.
The question of what is worth it should be answered. If Comet and others can rationalize the online experience and save us a lot of time, they will appear everywhere, but for the moment, these are new features at a high price. We will have to see if the improved AI-InCan browser can find the users it should last.
