Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Aravind Srinivas is battling Google to get his Perplexity AI assistant preinstalled on Android phones. At the same time, the CEO is refocusing his startup on what he predicts will be the next battleground in the AI race: your web browser. Perplexity plans to release its own browser called Comet next month, Srinivas tells me. “The reason we’re doing the browser is that it might be the best way to build agents,” he says. “A browser is essentially a containerized operating system. It can let you access other third-party services through hidden tabs if you’re already logged into them, scrape the page on the client side, and perform reasoning and take actions on your behalf.” Other AI firms are already going in this direction. OpenAI’s Operator and Google’s Mariner both rely on the browser to execute commands and control websites. OpenAI has yet to release its own browser bu ... Read full article.