New Delhi, July 18 -- 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 Comet."

"I expect them to pay close attention and copy/adopt stuff," he added.

Srinivas confirmed that Comet is built on Chromium and expressed that he is "grateful" to Google fo...