Perplexity has given its Comet Assistant a big boost, allowing it to handle your online chores like never before. The updated AI assistant can now work across many browser tabs and stick with more complicated jobs for much longer periods. It’s designed to be the brain of Perplexity’s AI-powered browser, always there to help you browse, pick up tasks, and make research and online paperwork easier.
The new update gives Comet a better “attention span” and a sharper understanding of what’s happening on the web. It also knows its limits better, asking for your permission before it takes any action in your browser.
One of the best new features is Comet’s ability to do many things at once. It can multitask across different tabs and apps, just like a human would. Instead of you jumping between tabs for research, data entry, and looking at references, Comet can look at all three at the same time for you. The new Comet Assistant is also better at understanding complex websites. This means you need to guide it less. For example, you can ask it to check several websites for flight deals all at once.
With more power comes a greater need for trust. So, the team added a user control system, putting you firmly in charge. If Comet thinks a task would go smoother by directly clicking links, filling out forms, or pulling information from a page, it will ask for your approval. Once you give permission, that choice stays for the rest of that task.
Perplexity reports real improvements with this upgraded Comet. Their internal tests show it completes tasks successfully 23% more often than the old version. The real game-changer is how well it handles tasks with many steps. Comet is now much better at finishing long, complex jobs that need continuous attention and follow-through.
This is great news for anyone who starts their day with a browser full of tabs, gets sidetracked, and wonders what they actually achieved by the end of the day. Comet now acts like a background assistant, ready to help sort out the chaos. It can even extract data from school portals to help you track your child’s attendance.
While other companies like Opera’s Neon and OpenAI’s Atlas AI browser are also working on smart AI helpers, Comet has taken a very practical path. Of course, it still has limits; it can’t run entire projects without supervision or always understand subtle details. But it is getting closer to being a truly reliable assistant that can bring order to your busy online life.
