AI Now Controls Your Web Browser: Got Inquiries?
Recent advancements in AI-powered browsers are revolutionizing the way users interact with the internet. These new browsers are designed to actively assist users by understanding intent, automating tasks, and providing an intelligent, conversational browsing experience. In this article, we compare the features, privacy, pricing, and capabilities of five cutting-edge AI browsers: Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode, Perplexity Comet, Dia, Opera Aria, and Opera Neon.
Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode
Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode integrates an AI-powered assistant for writing, summarizing, and productivity, deepening its connection with Microsoft 365. It also offers instant content summarization and opt-in experimental AI mode, launched in July 2025. Microsoft Edge leverages the privacy standards of the company's enterprise and consumer offerings, focusing on enterprise users and those within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Perplexity Comet
Perplexity Comet, a Chromium-based AI-native browser, was launched in July 2025. It features a built-in sidebar assistant, a "conversation-to-action" workflow, and the ability to automate tasks, compare products, book meetings, and complete purchases. While its privacy protocols are still under scrutiny, Perplexity Comet is expected to offer a free or freemium model, with early users reporting a productivity boost of approximately 10%.
Dia Browser
Dia Browser, developed by The Browser Company, is a Chromium-based, AI-powered browser that replaces traditional tabs with a chat interface. Its primary focus is on fluid user-agent interaction. While privacy details are not extensively available, Dia Browser aims to provide a conversational browsing experience, replacing tab overload with an AI chat agent that can perform tasks.
Opera Aria
Opera Aria, based on Chromium, integrates an AI assistant (Aria AI) for search, smart suggestions, and in-browser writing tools. Opera has a mixed reputation regarding privacy, but it offers options for standard privacy protections. The browser is free, with AI features included, and is aimed at consumers seeking integrated AI for writing, searching, and browsing assistance.
Opera Neon
Opera Neon is an experimental browser that focuses on new UI/UX concepts. It includes some AI features in workflow automation but places less emphasis on AI chat agents. Opera Neon's privacy model is similar to that of its core offerings, with limited specific AI privacy information available. The browser is free and experimental, with a focus on innovation in UI.
Additional Context
- AI browsers like those listed embed AI agents from the start, assisting continuously, contrasting plain browsers with optional AI extensions.
- Most AI browsers are Chromium-based, leveraging the open-source platform of Google Chrome while adding AI layers.
- Specific AI-powered data handling and privacy policies vary and are less publicly documented for newer browsers like Perplexity Comet and Dia. Microsoft Edge benefits from Microsoft's robust enterprise privacy standards.
- All browsers are generally free, with AI features built-in. Monetization may come later via premium features or enterprise licensing, but this is emerging.
- Microsoft Edge excels in productivity and enterprise use within Microsoft’s ecosystem, while Perplexity Comet offers an intelligent agentic browsing experience for multitasking and commerce, promoting conversational task completion. Dia introduces a paradigm shift replacing tabs with AI chat interaction for fluid engagement. Opera Aria and Opera Neon provide varying degrees of AI integration within familiar Chromium frameworks, focusing more on consumer usage and innovation in UI.
This evolving AI browser landscape highlights an arms race to fundamentally transform browsing from passive searching to active AI partnership, with each browser targeting slightly different user needs and privacy frameworks.
- The built-in AI-powered assistant of Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode is designed to integrate seamlessly with technology like Ethereum (ETH), enhancing its productivity features.
- Perplexity Comet, a new AI browser, leverages technology to provide a conversational-to-action workflow, automating tasks such as comparing Ethereum (ETH) investments or scheduling cryptocurrency transactions.
