Comet puts an assistant in your browser. Put one in a cloud browser that works on a schedule

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What Comet does Perplexity launched Comet on July 9, 2025. It's a web browser with Perplexity's search built in and an assistant in a sidebar. The Comet Assistant can summarize emails and calendar events, manage tabs and navigate web pages for the user, with the page they're viewing as context. At launch it was open to subscribers of the $200-a-month Max plan and people invited from a waitlist. (TechCrunch) A browsing agent is most useful in a browser that's already signed in to your accounts.

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