A hype cycle as overwhelming and logic-defying as the AI boom comes with its own whirlwind succession of trends that are their own mini booms driven by billions of dollars of money. Once the world got used to large language model-powered AI chatbots, autonomous AI agents became the next big thing. This past year, video generating models have been having their time in the Sun after rapid improvements.
Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas stated, "I reached out to Chrome to offer Perplexity as a default search engine option a long time ago. They refused. Hence we decided to build [the] Perplexity Comet browser."