Perplexity Comet

39 birriel 52 7/9/2025, 7:14:02 PM comet.perplexity.ai ↗

Comments (52)

bicepjai · 18h ago
I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
senectus1 · 15h ago
yeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in.

I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.

patrickscoleman · 15h ago
You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/

bachittle · 20h ago
AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Spartan-S63 · 20h ago
I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
sea-gold · 19h ago
Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

samrus · 20h ago
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
xnx · 20h ago
I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413
Alifatisk · 2h ago
This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"

Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth

Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not

andrewinardeer · 19h ago
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
pjm331 · 19h ago
correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan
rylan-talerico · 20h ago
Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

Alifatisk · 2h ago
As far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?
daft_pink · 19h ago
Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
pjm331 · 19h ago
this is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
aitacobell · 20h ago
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
poisonborz · 18h ago
Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
pona-a · 18h ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.

Alifatisk · 2h ago
xnx · 20h ago
A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
woadwarrior01 · 19h ago
IMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.
snorrah · 14h ago
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
brador · 10h ago
Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.

lousken · 20h ago
is that the spyware browser?
pelagicAustral · 19h ago
Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!
mmh0000 · 12h ago
fsflover · 19h ago
IceCat.
pjm331 · 20h ago
a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

reaperducer · 18h ago
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.

Finally, some truth in marketing!

sea-gold · 19h ago
I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org

ageitgey · 19h ago
It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
lofaszvanitt · 19h ago
It's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.
kveykva · 20h ago
The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
hexomancer · 20h ago
Yeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.
wy35 · 20h ago
Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
qntmfred · 20h ago
and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
seatac76 · 19h ago
sea-gold · 19h ago
> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
Alifatisk · 2h ago
Isn't Perplexitys Comet also built ontop of Chromium?
lofaszvanitt · 19h ago
oh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.
kurtoid · 20h ago
Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius

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woadwarrior01 · 19h ago
Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?

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samrus · 20h ago
is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit

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aitacobell · 20h ago
Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
_boffin_ · 20h ago
What do you think this browser will be built on-top of?
xnx · 20h ago
> light a fire under Google

Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?

I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.

aitacobell · 20h ago
Yeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.
dustyharddrive · 19h ago
Arc has been abandoned.
aitacobell · 19h ago
Interesting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild
dustyharddrive · 18h ago
lofaszvanitt · 19h ago
Nobody seen that coming
pram · 19h ago
Yeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.