Perplexity Launches Personal Computer AI: Comet Browser Brings AI Agent to Your Desktop

TamilTech AI summary

Perplexity has launched Comet, an AI-first browser that turns your PC into an always-on AI workspace with a sidecar assistant that can answer page questions, summarize articles, and help you navigate the web. The big upgrade is the background assistant (early access on the $200 Max plan), which can draft emails in your style, hunt cheap tickets, book flights, and tap into other apps on your computer while you do something else, then ping you when it’s ready for your final OK. Comet started locked to Max subscribers, drew millions on the waitlist, and is now free for core features like the sidecar, Discover, Spaces, shopping, travel, and finance tools, so anyone can try it without paying. This matters because it pushes AI from simple chatbots toward real agents that act for you, putting Perplexity in a direct fight with Chrome, Dia, and a rumored OpenAI browser. Users should know free gets you a lot right away, Max unlocks email help, the background agent, and stronger models, and you’ll want to watch reliability and privacy as this kind of deep access grows.

• What is Perplexity Comet?
• Is Perplexity Comet free to use?
• What can Perplexity's background assistant do?
• How is Perplexity Comet different from Google Chrome?

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