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Perplexity released its Comet browser to everyone today, shifting from a waitlist to free desktop downloads worldwide.
Comet bakes an AI assistant into every new tab so you can ask questions, summarize pages, and navigate without jumping between search results and multiple tools.
Perplexity first introduced Comet in July in a limited release. Since then, the company says “millions” have joined the waitlist, and early users asked 6–18 times more questions on day one.
The move poses a challenge to traditional search engines and browsers by…
