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A new web browser
A year ago, all anyone in the AI world could talk about was chatbots. Now some companies are increasingly focused on reimagining a more foundational internet service: the web browser. 

The revived interest in a product that dates back to the 1990s reflects a broader shift in AI. More developers, including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, are building AI agents that can browse the web and complete tasks on a user’s behalf. But these services remain clunky and may require a different kind of web experience to realize their potential.

“If you want to build a proactive, personalized AI, it needs to live together with you,” Aravind Srinivas, chief executive officer of AI search startup Perplexity, told me onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. “That’s why we need to rethink the browser entirely.”

Perplexity is building an AI browser called Comet that’s expected to be publicly released in the coming months. So far, it has only been made available to about 1,200 early users, the company said. This week, I got a peek.

Comet looks like a standard browser window, but with an AI assistant feature in the sidebar. In one pre-recorded example the company shared with me, Comet answered a question that I had asked a spokesperson about how many queries Perplexity’s app gets a month. The assistant explained its steps while, on the back end, searching through various open tabs on the spokesperson’s browser. Comet then pulled up the correct stat from a company dashboard and asked if it should email the results to me. (The answer, as Srinivas also confirmed, is 780 million monthly queries, up 20% from the month prior.)

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