Hold onto your hats, folks! 🎩 Perplexity, that AI prodigy, is diving headfirst into the browser game with its latest brainchild, Comet. But here’s the twist—it’s not just another pretty face in the crowded web surfing party. Oh no, it’s got its eyes on something juicier: your data. 😮 In a no-holds-barred conversation on the TBPN podcast, CEO Aravind Srinivas let the cat out of the bag. The endgame? Harvesting user data to dish out ads so personalized, they’ll know what you want before you do. “We’re aiming to gather data beyond the app to really get you,” he admitted. Now that’s what I call playing hardball! 💥
And if you’re sitting there thinking, “Hmm, smells like Google’s strategy,” well, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Comet rides on Chromium, Google’s open-source browser skeleton. But plot twist—with Google’s monopoly mess, Perplexity might just swoop in for Chrome itself. 🏗️ Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s Chief Business Officer, dropped hints about keeping Chrome on its toes at its current scale. And between us? He wasn’t exactly cheering for OpenAI to steal the spotlight. 🏆
