The news: Perplexity plans to launch its own web browser, Comet, this year, continuing a rapid-fire launch of new products from the AI search engine company.
Comet will be based on Chromium, an open-source software project owned by Google. Microsoft Edge, DuckDuckGo, and Opera are also based on Chromium.
Surge of development: The browser news comes amid a flurry of new activity for Perplexity.