By Aman Gupta
Publication Date: 2025-11-09 14:06:00
Perplexity AI has begun sending invites for its Comet browser on Android. The San Francisco-based startup had begun sending out invites for Windows and Mac users earlier this year and later made it generally available.
Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas shared the news of Comet browser for Android invites being sent out to a few early testers. Users can go to the Google Play Store or the Comet browser website to register their interest for the AI-powered browser. Srinivas said that Perplexity’s paying customers and regular users of the AI-backed search engine would get preference for the invites.
“Comet Android early invites are going out. If you want to maximize your chances for early access and shaping how the future of mobile browsing looks like—it all comes down to your Perplexity Android usage and Pro/Max user status! More invites will go out soon,” wrote Srinivas in a post on X.
Perplexity mounts challenge to Chrome’s dominance:
Just like in the PC market, Google Chrome has continued to reign supreme in the Android browser market as well. As per SimilarWeb data, Chrome holds a 60.45% market share in the mobile browser market, followed by Safari at 31.22%, Samsung Internet at 4.98%, Opera at 1.13%, and Firefox at 0.38%.
However, Perplexity has been looking to dethrone Google’s dominance in most of the company’s core segments using the power of AI. The company already offers an AI-powered search assistant that competes directly with Google Search….
