Perplexity's Comet Browser and the Death of the Address Bar: Why AI Browsers Reshape Discovery Forever
On March 18, 2026, Perplexity released Comet, a free AI-native browser for iPhone. Most coverage treated it as a feature update. An AI assistant in a browser. Another tab manager. A summarization tool. They’re all missing the point. Comet isn’t a browser with AI features. It’s an AI assistant that happens to have a browser. That distinction, subtle as it sounds, represents the most important shift in how humans discover information since Google replaced directories with search in 1998. ...