San Francisco primarily based AI startup Perplexity has been taking the competitors to Google first with its generative AI backed search engine and now with a local AI browser known as Comet. Nevertheless, it isn’t simply Google’s lunch cash that Perplexity is after, the corporate’s CEO Aravind Srinivas in a latest interview with The Verge revealed that there are at the least two white collar jobs that Perplexity’s Comet browser ought to be capable of take away quickly.
What are these two roles then? Properly, it is the roles the roles that any office usually depends on, recruiters and administrative assistants.
Within the newest episode of The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast, Srinivas defined how Comet will ultimately be capable of exchange the job of a recruiter after the introduction of a bettter reasoning mannequin like a GPT-5 or Claude 4.5.
“A recruiter’s work price one week is only one immediate: sourcing and attain outs. And then you definately’ve received to do state monitoring.” Srinivas mentioned on the podcast.
“you need it to maintain following up, hold a observe of their responses. If some individuals reply, go and replace the Google Sheets, mark the standing as responded or in progress and observe up with these candidates, sync with my Google calendar, after which resolve conflicts and schedule a chat, after which push me a short forward of the assembly. A few of these issues ought to be proactive. It doesn’t even need to be a immediate.” he added
Sinivas additionally notes that Perplexity has the ambition to make its Comet browser really feel extra like an working system which runs processes like these within the background and implements instructions primarily based on pure language prompts.
Comet browser is at present solely obtainable to Perplexity’s paying clients however the firm has additionally opened invitations free of charge customers who ought to get entry to the AI powered product in due time. In a Reddit AMA session earlier within the week, Srinivas had confirmed that Comet browser will probably be obtainable for even free customers however a number of the AI powered agentic duties could possibly be below a paywall.
In the course of the newest podcast Srinivas confirmed optimism within the risk that customers would wish to pay for Comet in the long term due to the funtionality it affords.
“And at scale, if it lets you make just a few million bucks, does it not make sense to spend $2,000 for that immediate? It does, proper? So I believe we’re going to have the ability to monetize in lots of extra attention-grabbing methods than chatbots for the browser.” he added.
