Will Comet outshine Google Chrome? Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas prepares to enter AI-powered agentic web browser

Can you imagine a competitor to Google Chrome emerging in the market? Well, Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity AI, has confirmed that the platform will be launching a new browser called 'Comet' to provide an agentic search experience.

The company released a teaser video for the same, but there is no guarantee as to when the agentic search engine is going to be released or what features it will power.

Perplexity's AI-powered search to gain dominance on Google

According to Similarweb data from January 2025, Google Chrome is the undisputed leader in the category of web browsers. Google Chrome has a market share of 63.55 per cent, second comes Apple's Safari, whose market share stands at 21.81 per cent and third comes Microsoft's Edge, with a 5.62 per cent market share.

Perplexity will be launching a new agentic browser: Comet very soon! pic.twitter.com/aLd8wdl6b1

¡ª Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) February 24, 2025

Meanwhile, Perplexity's AI-powered search is among those alternatives that are trying to take on Google's dominance in the search engine market.

By going to launch the Comet browser, Srinivasan is aiming to do the same thing, with a more crowded market and one where Google's dominance is more stabilised.

Aravind Srinivas believes patience is key

The CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, seems to be aware of the scale of challenges he faces in entering the browser industry. In one of his posts on X (formerly called Twitter), he shared a chart of Google Chrome taking over Internet Explorer. He talked about the importance of following the 'full process.'

In the post, Srinivas went on to say that it is a fact that it takes time to change the status quo, but having patience and persistence pays off one day. It took 5 years for Chrome to get ahead of Internet Explorer in terms of adoption.

It takes a while to change the status quo. But patience and persistence pays off. Chrome took 5 years to get ahead of IE in terms of adoption. What matters is providing a great experience to the user relentlessly for several years. Not just one release. The full process matters. pic.twitter.com/PfhC2Bw2mQ

¡ª Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) February 25, 2025

According to Srinivas, what matters is offering a great experience to the user for several years. Therefore, it's not just about one release; the whole process matters wrote Srinivas in his post.

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