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The goal of our Tech Competition webpage is to show how the abundance of competition in the tech industry benefits consumers through new exciting services, and market signals pushing businesses to constantly innovate and improve their offerings to their customers. We’ll keep this page updated frequently with news and facts that highlight the prevalence and impact of vigorous competition in U.S. tech markets.
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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Tuesday • October 14, 2025
Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option
The Company on Tuesday Announced that It’s Bringing AI Answer Engine Perplexity to Firefox, Letting Customers Decide Whether They Want to Use AI
While AI companies, startups, and others are rolling out their own web browsers that embed AI services deep into the web surfing experience, Mozilla’s Firefox is instead allowing its customers to swap out their default search engine for an AI-powered search option in the browser they already use.
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Thursday • October 2, 2025
Perplexity’s Comet AI Web Browser Is Now Available to Everyone
Comet, an AI-Powered Web Browser Built to Take on Google Chrome, is Now Available Free
Unlike a traditional web browser, Comet has an AI assistant built in. It can be called at any point to answer questions about the page being looked at and can use its agent to click on the page and accomplish tasks for the user.
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Tuesday • September 30, 2025
Opera launches Neon AI browser to join agentic web browsing race
The Move Underscores the Race to Transform the Browser into a Productivity Hub that Acts on Behalf of Users rather than just Delivering Search Results
Opera on Tuesday launched Neon, an artificial intelligence-powered browser that can execute tasks and run code inside web pages, adding to the intensifying competition among technology firms to make web browsing more agentic.
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Monday • August 25, 2025
Perplexity AI Browser Becomes Publishing’s New Revenue Stream
Perplexity AI’s Comet Browser Will Become a Source of Income for Publishers Through a New Subscription Service Launched Monday
The service, Comet Plus, gives Perplexity users access to premium content from a group of publishers and journalists. The company set aside a $42.5 million fund to distribute to participating publishers. It will be distributed among publishers whose content is used and found through its AI-powered search results.
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Monday • July 28, 2025
Microsoft launches AI-based Copilot Mode in Edge browser
Microsoft on Monday Launched a New “Copilot Mode” on its Edge Browser that Uses Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Browsing Experience
Copilot Mode can help carry out tasks, organize browsing into topic-based queries and compare results across all open tabs without requiring users to switch between them, Microsoft said. The update comes at a time when tech companies have rolled out several AI-powered online search tools.
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Wednesday • July 9, 2025
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
Launch Intensifies OpenAI’s Competition with Google in AI Race
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s, opens new tab market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone of Google’s success: user data.
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