The popularization of generative AI has meant an entire earthquake in the technological sector, and the one that is most noticeable is Google. Overnight, many competitors have appeared that can remove the market.
Perplexity ai is one of those competitors, thanks to its IA -based web search engine; From user searches, app and perplexity website generates an answer with the results with just what we need.
The great success of this search engine is the main culprit that Google has launched the view created with AI that replaces the traditional results of the search with a response generated by Gemini.
Now, Perplexity wants to take a step further, and compete directly with Google in another very important sector: that of web browsers. Currently, Google Chrome is the most used browser in Spain, both on mobile and desktop.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, has revealed in a public interview in Reddit that your company is developing A web browser for Android, Windows and Macoswhich will be released this year and will be called Comet.
Specifically, the Android version of the Perplexity browser This fall will be launchedalthough Srinivas has not been able to give a more concrete date. The desktop version will arrive before, with the first beta for next week.
As expected, Comet’s strong point with respect to other web browsers will be in the Integration of perplexity technologies. At least, we can use the search engine directly in a new tab.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO and co -founder of Perplexity.
In addition, Srinivas has played with the possibility that the browser has functions such as AI -based learning toolsand even video games, something that the CEO considers “feasible” with Comet.
Perplexity also plans integrate your productivity toolsPerplexity Labs, in the browser; LABS is able to take care of complex projects such as generating reports and spreadsheets analyzing the web.
With the Beta of Comet for Windows and Macos next week, Google Chrome can meet the greatest threat To its dominance over the market, especially if Google does not implement more functions of AI quickly.
The launch of Comet also confirms the rapid growth of Perplexity, which has resulted in great popularity, both between users and between companies; In fact, Perpleplexity has suddenly very requested on Android.
The same Samsung is in conversations with Perplexity to invest 500 million dollars and thus power Use your AI within the next Galaxy S26both with the pre -installed web search engine and in the Bixby assistant.
In the same way, it is rumored that Apple could also sign a treatment with Perplexity to include it as an alternative web search engine to Google in the iPhone, after the delays of the apple company with its functions of AI.
