With OpenAI’s release of the ChatGPT Atlas web browser, we evaluated its reviews next to Perplexity’s Comet in the battle that’s reshaping how we use the web.

The digital landscape has fundamentally shifted with the arrival of the "AI-native browser," a tool designed not merely to display the web, but to actively work on it. This paradigm change is being fiercely driven by two major contenders: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet.

Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas are at the forefront of agentic AI browsers. Brave's research highlights prompt injection risks in agentic AI browsers that could allow unauthorized actions by malicious websites,

ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet both position themselves as AI-first browsers, but they differ deeply in how they reason, act, automate, and handle multi-step tasks with or without user supervision.

SquareX has demonstrated how malicious browser extensions can impersonate AI sidebar interfaces for phishing and other nefarious purposes.

Ever felt like your browser is just… boring? You open a dozen tabs, jump between apps, and somehow get nothing done. Enter AI browsers. These aren’t the usual Chrome or Edge; they actually think with you.