Perplexity comet is not the first AI-operated web browser to come. This honor goes to the lamp, but thanks for the popularity of Permanence In form of AI-competent search engine And chatbot, it is drawing a lot of attention. It is entitled to this.
An agent browser, comet is not just a web browser, which is sticking to AI, such as Edes with Chrome and Copilot with Gemini. It is designed from the ground to use AI to automatically automatically to automatically improve and improve your workflow.
What is the goal for comet
Its architecture is built around an AI assistant, comate assistant, which lives in a sidebar. There, it can work on the content of any active webpage. Therefore, for example, you can ask questions about YouTube videos, analyze Google Docs, or summarize articles without leaving your page or other open tab. You can also use this to booking such tasks to booking, shopping, or to sign up for services.
In short, the comate is auxiliary reference-incoleric, capable of referring to the open tab for research, the content presents the inline briefly, and answers questions about web pages without copy-paste. It is especially useful for tasks like comparing products on sites or analyzing information on fly.
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If you are the kind of person who keeps dozens of tabs open when working on a problem, then you will love how to draw information from all your tabs to answer you.
The answer itself comes from the main perplexity large language model (LLM). As before, I generally got a lot to speak, to give good answers. Still better, since Perplexity cites sources for everything you mentioned, it is easy to ensure that its reactions are accurate.
Let me add, people who want AI to solve all your questions without work, you need to examine those quotes. Like all LLMs, perplexity still often seems wrong to facts. Always, always check your reactions again.
Limited compatibility and availability (for now)
The comate is built on Google’s open-source chromium-yes, it is so far another chrome-based browser-so it must be compatible with almost all chrome extensions, and basically import your bookmarks and settings.
This was proved when I tested the comet on my Apple 2023 MAC MINI with the M2 processor and Macos Sequoia 15.5 with 8 GB RAM. Indeed, the setup process took all my chrome bookmarks, extensions and login in only moments with smooth transfer. For now, you can run and run a Mac with an M processor.
The comet will not run on an Intel-Intelled Mac. I know. I tried it only for Gigls on my Intel-based Mac Mini. I liked my old Mac, but time to move forward.
After all, you will be able to run comets on Windows, but it will not happen in the next few days. Shortly after that, the comate will be available at Linux. While the browser is independent in itself – and will always be – for now, you should also have Maximum Tier subscribers, which cost perfectly $ 200 per month to use. Nevertheless, not everyone will get immediately. Perplexity is slowly rolling it for weight listed users. As users are added, new people will receive limited number of invitations to share.
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If you can’t wait, you can Download the program Today for Mac. However, it would not be completely functional until you received the invitation. A feature you will be able to use in perplexity will be able to use their information to read your current tab and answer your questions. You will often see an error message, “Your comet experience is restricted.”
My experience with comet
Once I installed it, I found that it worked quickly, but its performance was not outstanding. Instead of relying only on my impression, I benchmark the program Speedimeter 3.1It is an open-source web browser benchmark that measures the web application accountability on many popular JavaScript framework and various workloads such as reacts, angular, and Vu on user interactions on user interactions on various workloads. Started by Apple, the speedometer is now under the guidance of Apple, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Mozilla.
At the speedometer, the Comat scored 29.3, while Chrome 138, the latest version, scored 34.3. However, keep in mind as a beta program, the comet contains the code that has not yet been adapted to speed.
I am sorry to say that some features of the comate are still not working well. In particular, comet promises that it can do all kinds of clean things with my Gmail and Google Calendar accounts, such as responding to email, booking appointments on my schedule, you know, general “AI” AI will make your life easy. ” Spoiler Alert: It failed.
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Built on Google’s chromium, it should work smoothly with Google services. This is not. In particular, while Perplexity Comet is designed to integrate with Gmail and Google calendar and automate related tasks, I had a cat of time to certify my Gmail account with it.
My problem was that Perplexity connector and Google refused to sink with each other. Even when I took it down, the comate could read, abbreviations and discover the assistant email or calendar events, it often failed to perform more advanced actions such as sending emails, answering or inviting calendar. This is due to conflict with Google security restrictions, which prevents the third-party equipment clear, repeatedly without the user from executing specific functions. In many cases, the comet provided manual follow-up instructions, but it was a pain.
Of course, if privacy is a matter of concern, you do not want to use comets at all. While this includes a native advertising inhibitor out of the box, according to it Privacy Policy“Your input and output, such as questions, signs, and other materials that you submit to input, upload or services, and the output you create, and any collection or page that you produce using services” will be placed by the company. Therefore, if you access it to your Google account, then any data drawn from it will also be in the hands of perplexity.
If you give importance to privacy, comet assistant is not your friend.
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It should not be a shock. If you use AI, AI will use your data. If you are ready to do business, any AI system will do that deal with you.
I like what the comate is trying to do, but it’s not yet. give it time. I think it will get Perplexity there.
Meanwhile, Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas has grand dreams for the comet. In June Bloomberg tech summitHe said, “If People are in browser, this is infinite retentionEverything in the search bar, everything on the new tab page, everything you are doing on Sidecar, any of the pages you are, all of these are additional questions towards active users, as well as looking for new users, who are tired of only heritage browsers, such as Chrome. “Yes, you are not reading between lines, Google and Chrome are goals.
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