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Perplexity Teases AI Web Browser Called Comet 32

Posted by BeauHD from the what-to-expect dept.
AI-powered search engine Perplexity is developing its own web browser named Comet. "Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we're also reinventing the browser," a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch. "Stay tuned for updates." From the report: In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn't yet available. It's unclear when it might be -- or what the browser will look like, even. But we do have a name: Comet. [...] Perplexity may be betting that it can leverage its search engine user base to quickly ramp up and make some sort of a dent in the space with Comet.
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  • > Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we're also reinventing the browser,"

    Perplexity didn't re-invent anything. The world uses mostly Google in the Western world, DuckDuckGo in the not-wanting-to-be-tracked world, and Yandex and Baidu in the Eastern part.

    What a bunch of self-serving crap. Who would say such a CLEARLY FALSE thing?
    >...a Perplexity spokesperson ...

    But of course you are.

  • Is there a list where I can sign up to never, ever, ever get this, even under threat of (a different kind of) torture?

  • I am perplexed by this (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ebunga ( 95613 ) on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:15PM (#65192659)

    A new web browser? They really are speedrunning the dotcom era to its inevitable bust.

  • Chrome with their shitty AI in it? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by alexru ( 997870 ) on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:19PM (#65192661)
    I guessing it would be chrome with their shitty AI in it out of the box?

  • YAC (Score:5, Insightful)

    by markdavis ( 642305 ) on Monday February 24, 2025 @07:20PM (#65192667)

    >"Perplexity is developing its own web browser"

    Yeah, right. Define "its own". 99% chance it will just be Yet Another Chrom*.

  • I bet it's not a new engine...that would take a lot of time/effort.

  • I remember being a teenager and seeing the first iphone being presented. "No way, that screen is too small, that can't be a good experience. But... what if?" I went to the nearest Apple store with my mom (lucky enough to be living near one at the time) and tried it. Wow it... functioned, that's pretty neat.

    In comparison this latest AI craze feels like 95% smoke with only 5% fire. Executives and venture capitalists care a thousand times more than actual people. The hundreds of millions of "weekly active u

    • I used to work for a self driving car startup. It was indeed a lot of smoke and mirrors. A lot of companies have thrown the towel on this branch of AI. I do use ai to help me autocomplete some coding tasks but it is still really bad at doing a real project from scratch and keeps inventing API calls that do not exist... but would be neat if they did.

      Just like all the buzz around self driving cars a few years ago, it will take a few years for investor money to dry out as they realize that the technology is no

      • I think that those of us that work in disciplines that require some level of intelligence forget that most people do not.

      • ... lacks the capacity to understand ...

        He wants an answer in 10 seconds and to claim he's educated and smarter than others. It's a common flaw in people raised on 60-second sound-bites. This is why universities set essays like compare/contrast the sex life of one-legged ducks and the trajectory of the Dow Index. The student learns to research, to collate facts, to pick a side and finally to recognize, all problems have a legacy/past. And hopefully, the student gains useful domain knowledge.

    • > The hundreds of millions of "weekly active users" are people like dumbass middleschoolers

      And linkedin users. So I don't disagree with you, but it would be interesting to have demographic stats about LLM usage. where over time I increasingly exclude LLM from the concept of AI.

  • I guess an AI browser could surf the Web for me while I do other things ... :-)

  • Comet as a harbinger of doom or misfortune?

    JoshK.

  • Until perplexity uses its AI coding abilities to actually create a new browser, it's all just hype. Just like how most AIs are Wikipedia wrappers.

  • my hairy azz (if you pardon my French).

    Arrogant basterds.

  • What are the odds of it being an electron app?

  • "AI-powered search engine Perplexity is developing its own web browser..."

    Sounds like "man known for dementia will read your library books to you."

  • Wasn't Comet the name of the fictional browser that was being developed by a group of characters on the show "Halt and Catch Fire"? It was supposedly based on a web index project started by Gordon [Clark] and Donna's daughter Haley?

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