By The Indian Express
Publication Date: 2025-11-09 06:06:00
Perplexity AI Updates: AI search engine startup Perplexity is easily one of the most talked about players in the tech world. It continues to draw attention not only because of its clashes with rivals and various legal challenges but also due to its consistent pace of shipping new features and AI-powered tools almost every month.
In the last two months, the Jeff Bezos-backed AI startup has continued to add various new capabilities to its search engine, such as letting users search for research patents more easily. Most recently, Perplexity announced that it has “completely reimagined” Comet Assistant, the AI agent that is at the centre of its AI browser, Comet.
Unlike Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox’s traditional tabbed interface, Perplexity’s Comet offers a unique generative AI experience that lets users directly ask questions about the webpage they are viewing, among multiple other use cases. The agentic AI browser was made free-to-use for all Windows and Mac users earlier this year.
Here’s a roundup of everything new with Comet Assistant and the latest upgrades to the Perplexity AI search engine.
New features coming to Comet Assistant
Perplexity has upgraded Comet Assistant so that the AI browser agent can take more types of actions across a wider variety of tasks. “Our internal tests show it performs 23% better than its predecessor. This is helpful when your task for the assistant requires it to get many…
