Comet is a true general-purpose agent assistant, with the closest prior comparisons being OpenAI's Operator and Gemini's Project Mariner, but Operator's vision (ChatGPT decisioning across the web) was doomed by poor execution and UI—a slow, awkward toy-sized browser inside a chat window.

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the vision for operator was great, but what doomed it was the UI. It was the UI. And what Perplexity gets right is the UI.

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I Was Wrong About AI Agents — This $200 Browser Actually WorksAI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones
Created: 6/18/2026, 2:32:15 PM

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