- Perplexity’s new comet browser promises an AI assistant traveling online for you
- Comet joins other AI browsers aimed at beating Chrome and other popular platforms.
- Although AI companies are focusing on their browser’s enticing users, their mainstream -appeal is uncertain.
Confusion has officially moved to web browsers and embedded its AI tools in Comet, its new chromium browser.
It is available now, originally only for some subscribers on Perplexity’s Max Plan of $ 200 a month. At first glance, Comet is like most browsers, but Comet has a unique sidebar. You can highlight a word, phrase or image, and Comet will discuss it with you. You can get a summary of an article, write an RSVP, or organize the itinerary for your next vacation. There is also a privacy advantage. Confusion says that the AI treatment remains local and that it does not train its AI using your site visit.
It makes sense. Browsers are central to modern work and life. If AI models can stick to our browsing current, we use them all the time. But will it stick?
The browser area has seen a lot of failed Chrome clones, from Yahoo browser to Internet Explorer 6. Chrome and Safari claim over 90% market share globally. The subscription price alone is possibly the largest deterrent. Perplexity’s comet is $ 200 a month. Compared to the price of ‘free’, it would require much more than an occasional paper overview to make people pay.
And while Comet shows how it can be useful as a way of confusion to melt his AI with a web browser, it’s hardly alone to pursue the idea of reinforcing web browsers with AI. Openai builds a chatgpt-native operator browser. Currently, the browser company, Opera’s Aria, Microsoft’s Edge with Copilot and other similar services. And Google continuously adds AI to Chrome and offers quick summaries, summary and image explanations.
AI is reviewing the future
Confusion, Openai and any other challenger face the same challenge in getting people to change. And while it is possible that confusion breaks through to a new group of users with the idea of an AI browser, they will then have to turn against each other as well as the AI-enhanced versions of Chrome, Safari and the others who are on their way from Brave to Firefox, each with their own pitch for a better AI, more privacy or another appel feature.
Or maybe the concerns of technical problems and users’ privacy will keep the AI browser a niche product with limited appeal to hardcore users, a bit like Linux. AI may be the future of browsing, a short dish or something in between.
The question of what makes it worth doing should be answered. If Comet and others can streamline the online experience and save us a lot of time, they show up everywhere, but so far they are news for a prize. We will have to see if the AI-enhanced browser can find the users it should last.
