Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
CEO @perplexity_ai
We're excited to finally release our next big product after launching Perplexity in 2022: Comet. Comet is a browser that's designed to be a thought partner and assistant for every aspect of your digital life: work and personal.
“you can just do things” now applies to AIs even more than humans I guess
BREAKING 🚨: Comet browser is the first AI assistant which can distribute itself and onboard more users to install it! More Comet invites below ☄️
OK, Perplexity’s Assistant in the new Comet browser is good. Really good.
a fresh batch of comet invites just went. check your email
Just so that it's clear to a bunch of confused folks. You lose nothing you already have in ad-blocking browsers, when you come to Comet. All ad-blockers work natively. No extensions needed. Even incognito. We have all the resources needed to keep working on this.
Comet lets you search over everything like an agent would. Even stuff that’s not easy to index.
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Entirely possible that it could be Chrome (by Perplexity)
CometOS running your life
virtual machines running comet
do you think you will be using chrome in 2030 ?
This is a game changer for me. The @perplexity_ai Comet browser can automatically go through the YouTube upload wizard for me It's always so annoying to do that for every video. Now I can just tell it what to write.
Underrated aspect of Comet: better memory management than Chrome
I would never have thought a new browser would replace Google Chrome for me until... Comet by @perplexity_ai came around. It uses less of my computer's memory, seamlessly transfers my Google Chrome data over, and possesses agent-like capabilities.
There's a ton of interest in trying out Comet asap. Subscribing to Perplexity Max allows you to skip waitlist. Max subscriptions are growing fast Waitlist folks are getting invited in batches meanwhile (with a high priority for pro users) Feedback has been incredibly positive
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Hot take: Perplexity Comet >>>>> ChatGPT Agents.
Damn
The @xAI goal is 50 million in units of H100 equivalent-AI compute (but much better power-efficiency) online within 5 years
The new default browser
Overall, @PerplexityComet earned a spot as my new default 👑 It has a powerful agent built in, and the connections into G Suite + ability to set Tasks unlock real use cases. But, I also expect to remain a Dia WAU for Skills, which allow you to build workflows to feed context…
“Hey Comet, join my team meetings for me, turn off the camera and keep me muted, unmute and say “nothing from my end, thanks” when it’s my turn to speak, mute again, end meeting when it’s done”. How many want this ?
me opening Teams every morning
A frequent feedback from early adopters is this. "Didn't think highly of it, thought it was just a chrome extension, but more I use it, makes chat feel old, can't go back to chrome"
I admit when I first tried Comet I was like "meh, it's just a chatbot next to the site" but as I use it more it's actually really really useful. Great stuff Aravind!