Overview
- Comet offers a sidebar AI assistant that can send emails, book meetings, summarize content, manage calendar events and automate tasks based on webpage context.
- Built on Chromium, the browser integrates agentic AI search to deliver deeper, context-rich results compared with traditional engines.
- Access is limited to invitation-only Max subscribers at $200 per month, with Perplexity promising a free version in future rollouts.
- Srinivas criticizes Google’s dependence on ad revenue as a constraint on developing autonomous AI agents that perform clicks and conversions.
- Privacy and performance concerns persist as Comet competes with Chrome’s two-thirds market share and emerging AI-native browsers from OpenAI and others.