OpenAI to launch AI-powered web browser
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OpenAI set to launch AI browser in coming weeks and anticipates to directly compete with Google by taking advantage of ChatGPT active users.
If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.
AI-powered search company Perplexity unveiled its new entirely AI-powered search engine, an alternative to traditional styles of web searching. According to Perplexity, the Comet browser reduces the "clutter" of tabs and links in favor of AI-generated responses and a "single,