Perplexity Released a Browser!

Here we go. Yeah. So, it's gone onto our thing. Look. See? This is exactly what I was talking about. So, this is Comet under the hood. I see a fancy website. Yeah, this is a lovely little website. You might be saying bye-bye to for for to to Diaz pretty soon if they can get their act together. So, this is all scroll-based animations. I do like Perplexity's brand to be honest. It's I mean it's space and I love space and blah blah blah. So, Perplexi have released a browser. The interesting thing about this is that to be honest it doesn't offer much more than say DIA does. You've got the context. You can appment mention kind of other windows but the big feature here is it's got the auto agent mode. This this green glow that happens around the window. Now, this is the agent actually navigating and clicking around and doing things on the website and actioning whatever it is that you need to action, which is which is what Dia promised, but they haven't released it yet. So, this is really really quite cool and I'm quite excited about this. There are still some bugs as you know if you go to to Matthew Berman's video here he does it does kind of get a little bit confused about like what it's meant to do. Sometimes it actions things sometimes it doesn't. So it's very much I don't know whether it's officially in beta but you know he he struggles to kind of get this actual blue box kind of appearing around. So yeah, it's it but it's it's what we what we hope and dream and it's called Comet and it's pretty do gosh darn cool tweet. I want to show you something that's a bit of an annoying thing that it does. Here we go. So my comet agent posted this tweet and then it added on the end this create created with comet assistant which is really faking annoying. Like why have they done that? Especially when you come to learn who has access to this thing. I want to show the pricing. Have you seen the pricing? No, this is like my first time hearing about it and I'm okay. Basically, it's 200 bucks a month to have access to this. What? Not I mean, you get Perplexity Pro. It's not just the browsers and it's still kind of buggy. It's going to be really interesting like uh you know not just to do browsing and finding information but do things like you know to ask them to do something in web flow you know this just goes in and like clicks around done when will it be when it can run a QA you know open out the website and like ah these are issues with it so you need to solve them okay go back and solve them interestingly though this is this is hot topic right I've got complexity pro. I pay for it and it's got this thing called uh Perplexity Labs. I sent it off on a it's an agentic thing kind of similar to Manis and things like that and I was watching it do its thing and I was watching it navigate around websites clicking into websites. Now this to me was Comet auto browse working under the hood of Pexity Labs which is a pro feature. So, I think they've just taken the technology and exposed it in a more, you know, way. I guess the point is is that you you can kind of get sneaky access to Perplexity Comet just by using labs. It's just not as clear that it's actually doing it. And to be honest, I couldn't tell it to do something like, you know, well, I actually haven't tried. I could I might try and tell it to do something specific. I've just reran one of my things. Yeah. You see this? Yeah. This this is a browser. I don't know whether you can see it's very f here we go. Yeah. So it's gone onto our thing and let me click on the more button. So it looks look see this is exactly what I was talking about. So this is comet under the hood. Let me click let me click. So and you saw something come up here. Maybe we can open that. Let's see what it's doing and maybe we can watch it do its thing. This is our YouTube channel by the way guys. I'm subscribed to it. We're not seeing some live stuff going on here, but yeah. But yeah, this is it. It's opening stuff. It's It's opened this page. It's not just visiting. Look, let me click on the more button. That's what I'm talking about. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.