Perplexity Releases Android Version of Comet Browser, Says iOS Version Coming Soon

Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered browser, Comet, is now available in a mobile version.

The company has released the first mobile version of the browser, Comet Android, and will release an iOS version within days, Perplexity Co-founder, President and CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a Thursday (Nov. 20) post on LinkedIn.

“Research gets a lot simpler when you’re on Comet,” Srinivas said in the post. “You can easily buy stuff with just a simple voice command. And pretty much vibe browse with voice, completely changing how the browser is meant to feel on your phone.”

The browser was already available for Mac and Windows platforms, according to a Perplexity web page devoted to Comet.

In a Thursday blog post, Perplexity said that Comet is “the world’s first truly AI-native browser” and is used by millions of people.

“Building an AI-first browser has required deliberate work for each OS and every form factor,” the company said in the post. “We didn’t want to just force a desktop experience onto mobile. Instead, Perplexity has redesigned the mobile web browser for the new age of the internet.”

Comet provides a personal AI assistant that can answer questions and perform tasks, a voice mode that allows users to chat with the assistant, a feature that summarizes information across all the user’s open tabs, and an ad blocker that prevents spam and pop-up ads, according to the post.

“Comet is a powerful and private personal assistant,” Perplexity said in the post. “Ask it to do research, summarize, simplify, shop or learn. Whatever your personal superpower, Comet is your tool to amplify it.”

Perplexity launched a desktop-only Comet in July, initially making the web browser available only to Perplexity Max subscribers.

In October, the company made the browser available generally and at no cost. Perplexity also said at that time that it would make Comet available as a mobile app “soon.”

It was reported in September that Perplexity secured $200 million in new funding in a round that valued the company at $20 billion. At the time, the company had raised funds approximately once every two months over the previous year and secured total funding exceeding $1 billion.

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