Yesterday, Perplexity, the fast-growing AI platform, soft-launched Comet, a new web browser meant to compete with Google Chrome and Safari.

Perplexity’s Comet browser is a strong first step toward smarter web browsing. But OpenAI’s rumored browser has the potential to go further by offering a more intelligent, personalized and action-ready browsing experience.

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.

Instead of searching and clicking, users can ask the Comet web browser to perform tasks such as comparing products, finding related content, or completing actions like booking mee

If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser with an integrated assistant that could reshape search and browsing experiences.

Perplexity unveiled "Comet," its first AI-powered web browser, in a direct challenge to Google’s dominance in how users access information online. The new browser features Perplexity’s AI search engine as the default search option and includes an AI assistant capable of summarizing emails, managing tabs, and navigating webpages on behalf of users.