I just tried the Comet browser from Perplexity – and I can’t believe it’s free now
- The new browser of the Comète de Perplexity promises an AI assistant who travels the web for you
- Comet joins other AI browsers to beat Chrome
- Although IA companies are betting on the ability of their browsers to attract users, their consumer call remains uncertain
Perplexity has made his comet browser fueled in the world, no longer reserving it for those who are ready to spend $ 200 per month for a Max Perplexity subscription.
It is a great decision, and the one that claims Perplexity will never change. But if the creation of a free comet will make it popular remains an open question, even as the navigators led by AI proliferate.
The comet is a chrome browser that incorporates the whole AI of perplexity. The initial home page is a conversation with AI. You can open the Comet assistant as a side panel of each website.
He looks at what you do and offers help with the task in which you are committed, to summarize the large pieces of text to the manufacture of grocery lists on the purchase platforms and even go through your own data (with your authorization) to withdraw the responses from your email, your calendar, etc. If you like to use AI tools regularly, there is an obvious advantage not to have to change windows or stick URLs each time you want to get involved with an AI assistant.
Although the comet and its main features are free, some more advanced tools are only available for Comet Plus and Max subscribers. For example, Comet Plus Bundles organized the journalism of main publishers, while Max subscribers can bring Comet to execute its AI tools for hours both with the function of fundamental assistant.
By making Comet free for most things, perplexity clearly hopes to capture people’s navigation time, not just research requests. After all, if your browser is still there, it becomes the default mode. You can stop looking for websites or changing a tab; You will speak to your side panel instead. Perplexity also works to push the comet on phones.
He needs each edge he can obtain because he faces the integration of the AI by Google and Microsoft in their respective browsers, as well as new arrivals such as the new AI Neon of Opera browser, which has a subscription pricing.
Perplexity probably hopes that Comet will be a new (more successful) Netscape in terms of moving the way people travel online. Ironically, he does it by bringing back a more sophisticated version of the approach of the closed garden familiar to those of us who once remembered AOL keywords rather than URLs. The assistant could save you time and efforts in the process of browsing the web to get information, but you have to trust it at least as well as you.
Ai sailing in the future
My own experiences with this went well. I connected the browser to my Google account and asked it to create a calendar of upcoming events based on a search for invitations and related terms. A few minutes later, I had my next two months in place, and AI had follow -up suggestions to fill the shortcomings.
Then, I tested its connection with other applications and requested a recipe for Ceaser salad and to put the ingredients in a basket for a grocery store near me. Comet did not fully verify automatically, but it opened the order page, filled my e-mail and my address, selected the elements from a linked recipe and put the confirmation control in queue.
Finally, I fell into semi-random on a complicated scientific article on neuronal decoding among rodents and I opened it in a tab, then I asked the assistant comet to create some graphics based on experiences. He analyzed the PDF, extracted the underlying data when available or interpolated from the text, and presented the graphics, as well as a clear annotation of their meaning.
These three tasks – order food, planning from emails and data mapping – looked like glimpses of how Navigation on AI can move from passive visualization to active realization. The conversational flow, combined with a context devoted by the page, made them smoother than switching between research, email, calendar and calculation sheets.
Of course, it was not perfect; There was a gap, and on a few times, I had to explain myself more, but overall, it was a very impressive result.
At the same time, I was perfectly aware that the integration of the AI meant that it could see more of my navigation, which raised some discomfort around intimacy. However, if the comet in its free form is stable and reliable, perplexity can succeed in redefining what a browser should do. We can find ourselves waiting not only to surf, but also to converse with the web.
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