OpenAI now has a web browser, and so does Perplexity. Both of them are more than eager to convince you that you need more than just plain web browsing. Both of them insist that you absolutely need their AI to go about your daily workflow. Both of them want you to delete Chrome and try their idea of a modern-day AI-era web browser.
While both are built on Google’s Chromium foundations, they apply embedded AI assistants to assist with your browsing. In other words, they want you to rely more on their AI bot instead of heading first to Google Search. However, both of them have slightly different ideas of an AI web browser and how they can change the way you use the internet.
Hence, without further ado, let’s find out how these AI web browsers compare and whether they can replace your prec