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  1. “How the agent asked for your permission to do anything. So that level of control, transparency, trust in an environment that we are used to for like multiple decades, which is the browser, such a familiar front end to introduce a new concept of AI is going and doing things for you. Makes perfect sense for us to reimagine the browser. How did you go about building Comet when I first opened it felt familiar? It felt like Chrome in my understanding it's built on Chromium, the open source kind of substrate of Chrome that Google maintains. And that allows you to have a lot of easy data importing. I was struck when I first opened it that it only took one click to basically bring all my context from Chrome over to combat, even my extensions. So why decide to go that route, build it on Chromium versus doing something fully from scratch? First of all, Chromium is a great contribution to the world, right? Most of the things they did on reimagining tasks.”

    2025-07-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Both operate in the same manner where logins are actually seamless, client-side data is easy to use, and controlling it is pretty natural. Nothing is going to truly be damaging if something doesn't work. You can still take over from the agent and complete it when you feel like it's not able to do it. What is that environment in which this can be done in the most straightforward way without creating virtual servers with all your logins and like having users worry about privacy and stuff like that? It's the browser. Everything can live on the client side. Everything can stay secure. It only accesses information that it needs to complete the task. In the literal same way you access those websites yourself. That way you get to understand what the agent is doing. It's not like a black box. You get full transparency and visibility. And you can just stop the agent when you feel like it's going off the rails and just complete the task yourself. And you can also”

    2025-07-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Respond to anything. The same thing is true for agents. It should be able to carry out any workflow end to end from instruction to actually completion of the task. Okay, then you boil that down to what does it actually need to do it? It needs context, right? It needs to pull in context from your third party apps. It needs to go and take actions on those third-party apps on your behalf. So you need logged in versions of your third-party apps. You need to access your data from those third-party apps, but do it in a way where it doesn't actually constantly ask you to auth again and again. It doesn't actually need your permission to do a lot of the things. At the same time, you can take over it and complete the things when it's not able to do it because no AI agent is foolproof, especially when we are at a time when reasoning models is still far from perfection, right? So you want this one interface that the agent and the human can”

    2025-07-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Aravan, before we get into comet than how it works, I actually want to go back to our last conversation in April for my newsletter command line. We were talking about why you were doing this. And you told me at the time that the reason we're doing the browser is, quote, it might be the best way to build agents. And that idea has stuck with me since then. And I think it's been validated by others and some other recent launches. Before we get into things, can you just expand on that idea why you think the browser is actually the route to an AI agent? Sure. I mean, what is an AI agent? Let's start from there. A rough description of what people want out of an AI agent is something that can actually go and do stuff for you. It's very vague, obviously. Just like how an AI chatbot is vague by definition. People just wanted to respond.”

    2025-07-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Welcome to Decoder. I'm Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line Newsletter. I'm hosting our Thursday episodes while Nehi is out on parental leave. Today, we're talking about how AI is changing the way we use the web. If you're like me, you're probably already using apps like ChatGPT to search for things, but lately I've become very interested in the future of the web browser itself. That brings me to my guest today, Perplexity CEO Rivan Shrinavas, is betting that the browser is where more useful AI will get built. He just released Comet, an AI web browser for the Mac and Windows that's still in an invite-only beta. I've been using it and it's pretty interesting.”

    2025-07-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT