Perplexity Starts Early Invites for Comet AI Browser on Android

Overview

• Perplexity has begun sending early access links for Comet on Android, with additional invite waves promised by the company.
• Eligibility is weighted toward paid Pro/Max plans and demonstrated Perplexity activity on Android, and users can pre-register on Google Play or the Comet website.
• Comet is framed as an agentic browser that tracks user context and can handle multi-step tasks such as page Q&A, bookings, shopping, and job searches.
• The company recently overhauled Comet Assistant, citing internal tests that show a 23% improvement on multi-step tasks.
• CEO Aravind Srinivas has asserted that Comet could "deprecate Android," as competition intensifies with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and AI additions to Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.