Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on why Comet browser can beat Google’s Project Mariner: ‘Expect them to copy…’

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas has shared how the company’s Comet browser plans to take on competition from Google’s Project Mariner. Notably, Project Mariner is currently available only to Google’s paying customers and brings many of the AI functionalities offered by new-generation generative AI browsers.

Asked about the competition between Google and Perplexity during a Reddit AMA, Srinivas said, “They have something called Project Mariner (behind a $250/mo plan, I believe) – similar but quite limited compared to the capabilities of…