We open dozens of eyelashes when we need to compare a price, read the news, send an email and consult the time you are going to do this week. Browsers are useful, yes, but not always friendly. You have to look for, read, copy, hit, go back, cross data, remember where we came from. Often, when we managed to do what we wanted, we no longer know how we got there.
Perplexity wants to change all that. Your new browser, Comet, He has just left the incubator With a different proposal: less clicks, less eyelashes and more thought aloud.
A different proposal. At first glance, Comet does not impose. It looks like any modern browser: an upper bar with tabs, navigation buttons, fast access to open a new page and a clean design. On the left side, yes, a fixed panel appears where his assistant of AI lives. Can remember to COPILOTbut what promises is something else.
Comet
In one of the examples shown by Perplexity herself, the user has a map of London. He asks the assistant, in natural language, to generate a walking route to visit the five main tourist places. Comet interprets the order, select the initial location – the Torre de London – and begins to build the point by point by point, directly on the map.
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That, that until now we did with clicks and more clicks, the browser executes it as if he knew what he has to do. And it is not limited to maps. He is also able to summarize a Reddit love, find a specific video or cross information between open tabs. All without the need to change window or install accessories.
Wants to “think” like us. What Perplexity proposes with Comet goes beyond conversational search. Its commitment is to convert navigation into a kind of continuous mental flow, where tasks are chained by natural language orders. If we want me to summarize a text, it does. If we need to compare a product with similar ones, too. If we ask you to find something we read days ago, remember it.
Everything happens without leaving the browser. It is as if each tab knew what we need and commissioned on their own. In one of the shared examples, you are asked to buy a forgotten product or write an email from the information present on the screen.
Less noise, better decisions. Perplexity insists that Comet’s base is not only artificial intelligence, but precision. It presents it as a browser designed to answer well, not just fast. That is not limited to generating text, but provides reliable, verifiable, useful information. Because, According to the companymany of the decisions we make – especially what to read, what to buy, in what to invest or how to interpret a technology – depend on the quality of the answers we receive.
Curiosity as an engine. Perplexity not only seeks to commit questions, but understand how we ask them. What interests us, how we think, at what moments we usually deviate. The idea is that the browser learn from our cognitive style to offer a more refined experience.
Comet
It works like this: we can highlight any text fragment and ask for an explanation on the march. It is also possible to explore related concepts without abandoning what we were reading. Ask for counterarguments, cross references, nuances.
The problem, of course, is that every tool that adapts to us needs to know us very well. And that opens another conversation: that of privacy, tracking and limits of a browser that intends to think with us.
Comet is already underway. Comet is now availablealthough not for everyone. Access has begun limitedly for subscribers of Perplexity Max (200 dollars a month), and will be expanded by invitation throughout the summer. Is it a threat to Chrome? What will happen when Google Integre ia browser? We will know it over time.
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