By Matthew Mountjoy
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 19:18:00
Perplexity has been one of the leaders in the AI space since launching back in 2022. And now, it has successfully launched its Chrome-competing web browser, Comet, for Android.
Comet works by allowing the AI-native browser to prompt the assistant to do pretty much anything a user would do in a standard web browser. Perplexity’s site for Comet includes prompts like “summarize what emails are most important for me to respond to this morning,” or even “buy me an office chair that is high quality, comfortable, and cheap.”
This move to make Comet available on Android beats out ChatGPT’s Atlas browser, which does not yet have a mobile version.
Perplexity’s search for search
Perplexity has been looking to branch into search engines for a while.
In August, when there existed the possibility that the Department of Justice could force Google to divest itself from Chrome, Perplexity made a move to buy the biggest browser of them all. The company submitted a bid for Google’s web browser, Chrome, valued at $34.5 billion at the time while Perplexity was worth only $18 billion.
While it was outbid by another AI search engine, Search.com, the DOJ allowed Chrome to stay with Google and Perplexity has continued to build Comet, which it launched in July.
Comet is now available in your pocket
The Android version differs from the PC-based version in that it includes a voice mode, which…
