Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeancethanks to AI
News Source : Fortune
News Summary
- AI is shaking up the browser market, with companies beginning to incorporate new generative and agentic AI capabilities directly into the web navigation tool.
- That in turn is sparking a fierce new war for users, with Google Chrome, now enhanced with Google’s AI model Gemini, fighting upstarts like Perplexity, with its Comet AI browser.
- The vision for AI-powered browsing reframes the traditional browser as not just a tool for access, but as the primary interface through which AI agents operate.
The early days of the internet saw intense competition between graphical web browsers Netscape Navigator faced off against Microsofts Internet Explorer. No sooner had Explorer won that conflict than [+10889 chars]
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