AI-Powered Browsing Experiences

🚀 Introducing Comet by Perplexity: The AI Browser That Thinks Like You Perplexity, already a rising star in the AI search space, just unveiled Comet — a groundbreaking, AI-first web browser that merges browsing and natural-language interaction into one seamless experience. Designed for Perplexity Max subscribers and early-access users, Comet is built on Chromium, delivering full web compatibility while embedding smart AI at its core. 🌟 What Makes Comet Stand Out ✅ Conversational Browsing Comet lets you interact with websites just like ChatGPT: ask questions, summarize content, compare sources, or dive deeper without leaving the page. Highlight any text and get instant explanations or counterpoints—extending your curiosity, not interrupting it Perplexity AI ✅ Autonomous Task Automation The integrated Comet Assistant acts as your digital co-pilot: manage emails, schedule meetings, navigate tabs, make purchases, and much more using the prompt “take control of my browser”. ✅ Unified User Experience Combines search, browsing, summarizing, and task execution in a single environment—no more switching between tools. ⚠️ Drawbacks & Considerations Invite-Only & Premium Access Currently available only to Comet’s top-tier subscribers, with a broader rollout planned this summer. ✅ Speed & Accuracy Trade-Offs Automating complex tasks can be slower than manual input—initial testing showed unsubscribing taking 2 minutes instead of 30 seconds Channel News ✅ Trust in AI Execution Giving AI control over email, calendar, social posts introduces potential for missteps—user oversight remains crucial. ✅ Ecosystem Entrenchment Convincing users to switch from Chrome or Safari is tough. OEM pre-installation talks are underway, but inertia remains a barrier. ✅ Privacy Agreements Even with local data handling, linking accounts for task automation might raise privacy concerns—read the fine print. 🔍 Final Take Comet marks a bold shift toward agentic browsing—an era where browsers don’t just show content, they understand and act on your intent. Perplexity positions Comet as the next “killer app,” aiming to rival entrenched players like Google Chrome. As #AI becomes more autonomous and embedded in daily tools, Comet is both a powerful productivity enhancer and a testbed for balancing automation with trust, speed, and privacy. ✅ For tech professionals, digital marketers, and innovators—Comet is a signal: the browser wars have shifted to AI intelligence, and the battleground for control over our online experience is heating up 🔥. Curious about how agentic browsing could change your workflow or marketing strategy? Happy to discuss in the comments! #AI #AIBrowser #Comet #Perplexity #Productivity #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #TechInnovation #Privacy #Automation #DigitalTransformation ✨

OpenAI’s Operator Is Now ChatGPT Agent Back in January 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, an AI agent that could control a web browser and perform real-world tasks. On July 17, OpenAI officially sunsetted Operator in favor of a  unified agentic system.: ChatGPT Agent. 💡 What’s New? ChatGPT Agent combines: • Operator’s browser automation and task execution • Deep Research’s ability to synthesize information • ChatGPT’s natural language skills It now includes: ✅ A visual and text-based browser ✅ Terminal access + API control ✅ ChatGPT Connectors — integrations with third-party apps like Gmail and Google Calendar ✅ Real-time task editing and step-by-step visualizations It’s currently available for Pro, Plus, and Teams users — with Enterprise and Edu support coming soon. Most importantly, it works on the ChatGPT mobile app. 🛍️ Agent for Shopping? The launch demo featured a shopping use case: finding a wedding outfit, booking a hotel on Booking.com, and choosing a gift. I asked ChatGPT whether retail partners from the Operator launch (Target, Etsy, eBay, Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, and Goodwill Keystone Area) are still part of the program. It said: Yes. 🔐 What About Safety? Because ChatGPT Agent can access your data and take real-world actions, OpenAI doubled down on safeguards: 🛡️ Protection from prompt injection ✅ User confirmation required for real-world actions 👀 “Watch Mode” for high-impact tasks (like sending emails) 🔐 One-click cookie/data deletion and secure input handling

AI field notes: LLMs are getting really good at using the web (opening up interesting opportunities for new products and devices)... let's take a look! AI systems are defined by three capabilities (you may know better ones): inputs, and the depth of understanding, reasoning across those inputs, and actuating a tool or other system in response to that reasoning and understanding. All of these nascent (but growing) capabilities are on display in the equally nascent (but growing) field of generalized web automation. It's fascinating. 💡 The general idea is one which humans do every day: go to a web site and interact with it to complete some specific task. It's super hard to automate, because each web site has a different look and feel, there is little to no standardization in workflow or information structure, and the sheer number tasks you can use websites to complete is vast. 😓 It's so hard, that most research shows that typing in a task in natural language, and completing it automatically failed 98% of the time. Ouch. 🚀 But things are moving quickly, and a paper from Ohio State showed a new agent called 'SeeAct' which is a pretty big step forward. The agent used multi-modal inputs (images of the rendered website, text, and HTML) to better understand the web site, and then used 'manual grounding', where humans helped convert the natural language description into specific actions on the web site. 🤘 It might sound like a fudge, but it's a pretty common practice when training agents for generalization - and the result is impressive: a 50% success rate. Big jump. Early days, but this type of work opens the door for more and more automation across the web; driving up productivity. Worth keeping an eye on in 2024. #generativeai #ai #web