It is no secret that Apple It is the red lantern in the career of the great technological ones for AI. Apple Intelligence It has not been what many users, encouraged by the company’s comments at the WWDC of 2024, expected and the renewal of Siri with a new artificial intelligence model has been postponed. Due to this situation, Apple would be considering Buy the perplexity startup to integrate its artificial intelligence capabilities into its products and servicesas Bloomberg has reported, and thus get up to the competition.
Perplexity.ai It is not a chatbot to use. It was released in 2022 by a team from OpenAIdeveloper of Chatgpt And it is presented as a Conversational search engine with artificial intelligence which uses own and third-party language models such as GPT-4, Claude or others. It has both a free and payment version, and always offers links to the sources of information you use. Without being perfect, it is more reliable than chatgpt when it comes to doing so, as has been demonstrated several times. And its new product is a IA browser, comet which is about to reach Windows users. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, has confirmed in X that the Windows version is already ready and that the invitations for the first testers have already been sent. The company is also working on an Android version, whose development, they say, goes ahead of the expected.
Windows Build is Also Ready. And Few Invites Have Been Sent for Early Testers. Android Build is Also Moving at A Crazy Pace and Moving Ahead of Schedule. iOS Updates Soon. https://t.co/qwmd3qpqvn
– Aravind Srinivas (@aravsrinivas) June 22, 2025
Comet debuted in May as a beta version for Mac with Apple Silicon chips; that is, with Neural Enginethe unit specialized in AI processing that Apple integrates in its chips in the M series. Generically, they are NPU or neuronal processing unit.
Comet, Perplexity’s IA browser
The browser approaches what we understand as a Agent capable of performing actions on the username. Integrates ia tools directly into the navigation experience and can Answer questions, look for discounts on online purchases, automatically manage notifications and locate emails not read. It also includes a called function Try On (Pruébalo) that allows you to upload a photo and see how the user would have different clothes, similar to the tool that Google recently presented.
Unlike traditional browsers, the experience of use will have What to see less with the address bar and more with the assistant integrated into The browser, instead of depending on the traditional search. It is not the first browser with a chatbot among its functions, but the first designed from scratch for it, something that is not the case of Edge, Chrome, Brave or any other of the usual players.
The controversy of the data
Srinivas declared in a podcast that Cite could use app external to the app to better understand users. Later he clarified in X that his statements had been taken from context and clarified that Each user may choose not to participate in the customization of advertisements directedaccording to Engadget.