Perplexity of the company AI In February, he built his own browser called Comet. In a recent with TBPN Podcast, CEO Aravind Srinivas explained why the company seemed to be projecting itself from its objective of artificial intelligence: it is a question of collecting data from users and selling them targeted advertisements.
“It is in a way one of the other reasons why we wanted to build a browser, it is that we want to obtain data even outside the application to understand you better,” he said. “We plan to use the whole context to create a better user profile and, perhaps you know, thanks to our flow of flows, we could publish announcements.”
If all of this seems familiar, it could be to become the Chrome browser from Google has adopted a similar approach. In fact, Comet is built on Chromium, the Google open source browser base. This does not mean that perplexity would not take the opportunity to go directly to the source and to acquire Chrome in the aftermath of the recent online research of Google. In the current audiences on Google and Son, the business director Dmitry Shevelenko He thought that perplexity would be able to continue to execute the browser on its current scale. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t really like to open the property.
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