New Delhi, Dec. 3 -- As AI moves deeper into the browser to execute actions, not just answer questions, the web is evolving into an agent-driven environment. Perplexity says that shift calls for stronger guardrails to protect users from malicious prompts hidden across web pages. To address this, the company has introduced BrowseSafe, a real-time HTML scanning model designed to detect unsafe instructions targeting AI assistants inside the browser.

BrowseSafe focuses on one core task: identifying whether a webpage contains instructions intended to manipulate an AI agent's behaviour. Large models can detect such threats, but often with high compute cost and latency. BrowseSafe, fine-tuned specifically for detection, scans full pages without...