Videos from Perplexity as well as YouTubers show what it's supposed to do: provide you an interface to simplify your research, evaluation, and execution of written instruction.
For example: you're supposed to tell it to do something like, "plan my week for me including make me a menu plan, setup a grocery list and add everything I need to it, shop the list and allow me to pick it up on Sunday afternoon, and, in the meantime, plan for me 2 days of things to do." And supposedly, it will do all of these things for you automatically. I haven't tested it, but it basically this is intended to do all the things we've hoped AI would help us do--automatically. Will it be successful? Probably a bit better than we've come to expect, but it's nothing like we have built up in our minds.
AI has been game changing for me in my work life, but I have yet to find it useful for things like I laid out above. Maybe that's changing and this is the first step toward that future.
Can't say I have much trust in any of these recent AI company launched browsers.
They have a proven track record of not respecting people's data...
Wow, $200/month for the privilege of being monetized and tracked even more closely than Chrome does. Sounds like a real winner.
Recent and related:
Perplexity Comet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513769 - July 2025 (52 comments)
Comet Browser by Perplexity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511527 - July 2025 (14 comments)
I've always wanted a browser with a subscription fee
Comet, you say?
Free slogan, courtesy of Joe MacMillan: “Search it, find it, comet”
:)
AI isn't the thing, it's the thing that gets us to the thing
Comet, it makes your teeth turn green...
Perplexing indeed.
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-br...
This reads like the onion
A web browser which tracks everything you do and you have to pay for the privilege…
Just pitching to VCs...why would any person want that?
Use case for LLM-infested Chromium wrapper?
Track everything users do and sell the data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44523226
Videos from Perplexity as well as YouTubers show what it's supposed to do: provide you an interface to simplify your research, evaluation, and execution of written instruction.
For example: you're supposed to tell it to do something like, "plan my week for me including make me a menu plan, setup a grocery list and add everything I need to it, shop the list and allow me to pick it up on Sunday afternoon, and, in the meantime, plan for me 2 days of things to do." And supposedly, it will do all of these things for you automatically. I haven't tested it, but it basically this is intended to do all the things we've hoped AI would help us do--automatically. Will it be successful? Probably a bit better than we've come to expect, but it's nothing like we have built up in our minds.
AI has been game changing for me in my work life, but I have yet to find it useful for things like I laid out above. Maybe that's changing and this is the first step toward that future.