Perplexity AI's Comet browser revolutionizes internet browsing with AI-driven conversational interfaces, potentially reshaping how users access information online.

If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.

Instead of searching and clicking, users can ask the Comet web browser to perform tasks such as comparing products, finding related content, or completing actions like booking mee

Perplexity.ai has launched its own Comet browser to take on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and their respective search engines. But Comet is enormously expensive, and in tests, didn't always work.

Perplexity unveiled "Comet," its first AI-powered web browser, in a direct challenge to Google’s dominance in how users access information online. The new browser features Perplexity’s AI search engine as the default search option and includes an AI assistant capable of summarizing emails, managing tabs, and navigating webpages on behalf of users.