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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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Wednesday • July 9, 2025
Perplexity just launched an AI web browser
Comet Uses Perplexity as its Default Search Engine and Comes with a Built-in AI Assistant
Perplexity, the startup behind the AI “answer” engine, has just launched its own web browser. The browser, called Comet, incorporates Perplexity’s AI search tools and assistant in a way that CEO Aravind Srinivas says “transforms entire browsing sessions into single, seamless interactions.”
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Wednesday • July 2, 2025
Baidu Overhauls Search Engine With AI Features, Voice Function
Baidu is Overhauling Its Search Engine with AI Features and a Voice Function to Make It More Like an AI Chatbot
The Beijing-based company said it wants to make its mobile app more like an AI chatbot that can help users with writing, drawing and trip planning tasks. It will focus less on keywords and more on natural language searches and also allow users to perform searches by voice in several Chinese dialects.
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Sunday • June 22, 2025
Perplexity’s AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users
The Company’s CEO Teased that a Windows Build for Comet is Ready for Beta Testers
Aravind Srinivas posted on X that the Windows build of Comet is ready and has sent out invites to early testers already. When Comet is released, the agentic browser will face competition from Opera Neon and similar offerings from Google and OpenAI.
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Thursday • June 6, 2024
DuckDuckGo dips Into the AI chatbot pond
The Privacy-Focused Search Engine Introduces AI Chat, a New Feature That Lets Users Choose Between Different AI Models Like GPT-3.5, Claude, Llama, and Mistral
Because there simply aren’t enough AI-powered chatbots out there, we’re getting one more. This one, called AI Chat, comes courtesy of DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine that obviously doesn’t want to feel left behind in the AI arms race. The company has been testing AI Chat over the last few months, but as of today, it’s available to everyone.
Unlike other standalone bots like Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT that are powered by their own large language models, DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat is not. Instead, think of it as a way to access multiple chatbots in a single place. Right now, AI chat will let you choose between OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3 and Mistral’s Mistral 8x7B, and the company says that more models are coming soon. The main differences between them largely boil down to how many parameters — technical speak for the settings that a large language model can tweak to give you an answer — each one has. If you don’t like a model’s answer, you can try another one.
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Thursday • June 6, 2024
Microsoft Edge Achieves Record 13.14% In May 2024
Microsoft Says That After a Period of Steady Decline, the Rapid Rise in Users of its Desktop Browser Showed All-Time High Figures
When you think of leaders in today’s desktop browser market, Microsoft Edge rarely comes to mind. The competition to reach the top spot is tough when you’ve got Google Chrome involved. But the month of May 2024 proved otherwise for the software giant which managed to report record-high figures for its Edge browser users. The news comes to us thanks to intelligence from Statcounter where the latest findings put a lot of things in the spotlight.
As per the figures from last month, it’s the Edge browser who hit the all-time high mark of 13.14%, beating out stats from the previous month by nearly 0.32 points. But, indeed, we won’t have a new leader in the browser market that overtakes Google Chrome’s massive share that it benefits from today. But one thing we can confirm is that the Android maker did lose a huge chunk of its user base last month.
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