The AI Browser Wars

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Perplexity makes Comet free for all users
The AI Browser Wars
(Illustration: Saurabh Singh) 

 Perplexity had shocked the tech world in August when the artificial intelligence (AI) startup unexpectedly put in a $34.5- billion bid for Chrome, Google’s browser that rules the non-Apple ecosystem. Nothing came of it, but it has nevertheless set about get­ting a slice of the browser market by now making its AI browser Comet free. So far, it had been lim­ited to those who took a paid sub­scription to its suite of high-end offerings.