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ChatGPT Atlas VS Perplexity Comet (Which is Better?)

By Brock Mesarich | AI for Non Techies

Summary

## Key takeaways - **Agentic Browsers Perform Complex Tasks**: ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet are AI browsers that can perform tasks across your web browser, with the AI controlling the computer without user input. [00:06] - **ChatGPT Atlas Mac-Exclusive Availability**: ChatGPT Atlas is currently only available for download on the Mac operating system. [00:41] - **Meta-Task: Build an Agent with AI Browsers**: The video tests ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet by giving them a complex, meta-task: to build a Zapier agent that identifies sponsorship inquiries in Gmail and logs them into Notion. [01:10] - **Perplexity Comet Faster Initial Setup**: Perplexity Comet was quicker to initiate the agent-building process, opening Copilot within Zapier and formulating the agent's requirements, while ChatGPT Atlas took longer to start. [03:35] - **Both Browsers Struggle with Notion Integration**: Both ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet encountered difficulties when configuring the Notion database, getting stuck at the step of identifying or creating the correct page. [05:16] - **Agentic Browsers Lack Event-Triggered Automation**: Current agentic browsers like Atlas and Comet cannot be triggered by specific events (like a new email arriving); they require direct user input to initiate tasks. [06:47]

Topics Covered

  • Can AI agents build other agents? A complex test.
  • See the AI at work: the 'blue ring' shows browser autonomy.
  • Why AI browsers can't replace event-driven automation yet.
  • Agentic AI is revolutionary, but expect frustrating, slow results.
  • ChatGPT Atlas wins: superior context and smoother execution.

Full Transcript

Chachi Atlas browser was just released

yesterday and everybody's asking how it

compares to Perplexity Common. If you

don't know what either of these

platforms are, they are agentic AI

browsers that replace the need for

Google Chrome and can actually perform

tasks across your computer. As you can

see in this demo, it's actually

controlling my computer and my hands

aren't even touching the keyboard. In

this video, I'm going to test them side

by side, break down the key differences,

and by the end, you'll see exactly which

browser is best for you without the

hype. So, let's dive into this. All

right, guys. So without wasting any

time, I want to dive right into this

demo here comparing these side by side.

First things first, if you want to

download ChatCBT Atlas, just look up

ChatCBT Atlas and then you could

download this right now. It's only

available for download for the Mac

operating system. So if you do not have

a Mac, unfortunately, you're not going

to be able to try this out right now,

but it's still worth it for you to stay

to the end of this video to see what

it's capable of. Same thing for

Perplexity. Make sure you go ahead and

download Perplexity's Comet app. These

are both of the browsers that we're

going to be testing side by side in this

video. First things first, let me go

ahead and actually give a prompt to each

of these and then let's watch it go off

and I'm going to break down exactly how

it's going through each of these tasks.

The first example that I have is I had

this idea. So, instead of doing some

basic demo like having it add groceries

to Instacart or having it go and book

flights for us. You've seen so many

examples of those in previous videos.

I'm actually going to do something a

little bit more advanced and this is

very meta. So, what I'm going to do, I'm

going to come to agent mode inside of

chatbt. And this is where it's able to

actually go off, open a browser, and

actually click and do different things

with inside of Atlas. I had this idea,

what if I gave it the task to actually

build for me an agent? So, I'm going to

use Zapier agents to do this. So, this

is a very meta example of me using the

chatbt agent and the Perplexity agent to

build an agent for me. This is going to

be a little bit more of a complex task.

Let me describe what I want my task to

be. Now, so I want you to go inside of

my Zapier agents account and I want you

to build me a Zapier agent, not a Zap.

And the point of this agent is to be

able to scour my email inbox in Gmail

and identify every single email that

comes in and figure out if that is a

potential sponsorship inquiry. If it is,

I want you to label it as sponsorship

inside of my email. And then from there,

I want you to actually add that company

with a URL to try the product into a

notion database along with a one-s

sentence summary of what that platform

is so I could have all this information

summarized for me. All right, so that is

my prompt there. I'm going to paste the

exact same thing in the perplexity

comment. So what I need to do is I

actually need to log into my Zap year

account to make sure it's not going to

ask me to log in. So that's something

that we need to note with these

platforms is if you're not logged in to

a platform or if it doesn't have context

in your browser then actually won't be

able to perform these tasks. So it looks

like Zapier I'm logged in on chatbt. Let

me come to Zapier on Perplexity and

there we go. We're logged into both of

these. So what I'm going to do let me

come back to our tabs here and I'm going

to click run for both of these. All

right. So as you can see Perplexity is

actually already opening a browser here.

So if I come to this Zap year tab it

opened this itself. My hands are off the

keyboard. I did not go ahead and do

this. It's now inside of my Zapier

account trying to figure out how exactly

to begin crafting this agent. And as you

can see on the lefth hand side, chatbt

Atlas is doing the exact same thing.

Whenever you see this blue ring around

each of these different browsers, that

means that the AI is actually inside of

a cloud browser and pointing and

clicking and typing directly in our

interface. All right, so I'm going to

break down each of these workflows as I

see each of these browsers performing

this task. So you can see that

Perplexity opened up Copilot inside of

Zapier and basically said exactly what I

want for my agent to perform. So it sent

this off to Copilot, which is basically

Zapier's way of helping you build agents

with basically just natural language. So

you can just write in text explain what

you want to build and it will actually

help create the instructions on how to

actually build it. And if I expand this,

you could see that there are these

instructions here now that Perplexity

Comet actually gave to my Zapier agent.

Chabbt Atlas is a little bit behind. You

could see that it just now opened up

create a new agent. It's actually trying

to figure out how to perform this task.

To be honest, I'm really impressed with

how quickly Perplexity Comet was able to

actually get to this stage because it's

in the process now of building this

agent. You could see that it's

configuring each of these different

steps. That is extremely interesting

here. So, so far this workflow that each

of these are going through looks very

similar. It looks like Perplexity agent

has finished the workflow, but I think

it might be actually testing it to make

sure that it's actually working. So, you

can see that it says the workflow is

ready to activate. Would you like me to

make any adjustments? But it is still,

you know, working here because again,

you could see this blue ring around our

page here. I'm going to pull up the

chatbt atlas page just so you can get a

full sense of what it's doing right now.

So it's like again this right here is

not me touching the keyboard. This is it

actually scrolling on this page. It's

selecting different things. It's

selecting different fields. Right now it

looks like it's actually trying to

configure this notion page. So whenever

I have a new sponsorship inquiry, not

only will it add a label, but it will

also add this to my notion database with

all the different companies in a summary

of what the platform is. So looks like

both Comet and Atlas got stuck right at

the notion part. Basically, it's trying

to figure out which Notion page I want

it to be added to. For the sake of this,

I actually don't have a page in Notion

set up. So, what I'm going to do is I'm

going to come to both and say, I want

you to go and actually create a specific

Notion database and then use that. So,

they're both stuck at the same point

here. I'm going to send that off and

they're going to begin actually trying

to configure this. So, I wouldn't be

surprised if they both open up my

Notion, try to log into Notion and

actually create these from scratch. And

guys, make sure to stay to the end of

this video where I'm not only going to

show the results of this, but I'm going

to break down which of these I think is

better and which one that you should

actually be using. Okay, so it looks

like CHATBT atlas now is inside of

notion. There is this page now called

sponsorship inquiries. It went and added

these different rows. It has name, link

to the platform, and then summary. This

is exactly what I wanted it to do. So,

it's going ahead and doing that without

me needing to assist it. And now that

it's set up that notion database, it is

actually now configuring this inside of

Zapier. So it's basically just

connecting Zapier to this specific

notion page. So that way it knows where

to actually map this information if that

makes sense. All right. So Perplexity

comment said, I see I was disconnected

again. Let me continue where we left

off. I can check the existing

sponsorship inquiries. It's basically

asking if it should proceed. So let me

just say yes, please. Meanwhile, chat

should be T Atlas is off doing all this

without me needing to kind of assist

what it needs to do. All right, let's

take a quick break and take a step back.

You might be asking, Brock, why are you

trying to create an agent inside of

Zapier instead of just letting Atlas or

Comet do this for us? And the reason for

that is because right now these two

browsers are not able to go off and be

triggered by a specific event. So what I

mean by this is the agent that I'm

configuring inside of Zapier is

triggered when a new email comes in. If

a new email comes into my Gmail account,

it will automatically trigger this agent

or workflow. We'll go through, it'll

analyze if it's a brand deal inquiry,

then label that. But with Atlas and

Comet, it's not able to do that. So

right now these browsers, you need to

give some form of input to it. I need to

say, "Hey, can you go off and create

this for me?" Or, "Could you go through

my email inbox, analyze which are

potential sponsorship inquiries?" And

then add that to notion. I'd need to

like give it that input. So, the reason

I wanted to show this use case of me

trying to build an agent with these

agents is to basically show a little bit

of the difference there. But not only

that, I wanted to showcase the power of

being able to give these platforms a

task and then have it go off and figure

out how to do it step by step. if you

had those. So, if you had that question,

I hope that clarifies. Now, let's go

back to watching them perform this task.

Right now, it looks like Atlas is in the

stage of actually creating this database

inside of my notion page. So, we can see

here that it says company name. It's

adding these different properties here.

It looks like it's going to actually add

the link as well to this company along

with the summary. And then if we open up

Perplexity Comet, it just went through

that same process. So, it was able to

actually go and add this information

here inside of my notion. Again, while

Atlas is off performing this task, it

looks like Perplexity Comet got caught

up again. So, it says next steps needed.

I was in the process of instructing

Copilot to connect to sponsorship

inquiries database. It needs to do these

three things now, but for whatever

reason, it got cut off. So, let me say

proceed with those tasks. All right. So,

one thing I noticed is Atlas was stuck

on creating this notion database for

quite a while. And it actually did

everything it needed to, but it added

five different summary tabs here. it

only needed to add one. It seemed like

it was kind of caught up on that task

and not understanding that it actually

needed to go ahead and craft our agent

and connect it to notion. Instead, it

was just focusing on the notion part of

it. So, that is something I wanted to

note that it was having a little bit of

trouble with that. But now it's back and

it's on task and hopefully should be

finishing here shortly. If we go back to

comet, it is in the process of mapping

the notion fields. So as you can see the

parent page it selected the right notion

page and then for title extracted

company name and then added one sentence

summary of what the platform actually

does. So it's in the process of

connecting notion to our agent here. One

thing I want to note here guys is this

is taking quite a bit of time. I think

I've been doing this for about 15

minutes now. They've been running to

their own types of errors. So hopefully

this shows you where this technology

lays right now. It's definitely the

start of this new revolution of having

browser agents going off and performing

tasks for you, but you need to be really

specific with what with what your prompt

is, and it does take quite a bit of

time. It would have been easier for me

to go and do this myself instead of

sitting here and trying to instruct on

how to actually perform this task. All

right, I'm not going to lie, that was

not the smoothest process for either of

these browsers, but let me show you what

actually went down. So, I went ahead, I

tested our agent on both that they went

ahead and built. I just clicked this

test agent button and it ran our

workflow. If I come over to the one that

I did with chatubt atlas, you could see

that it added these different pages

inside of a not notion page. But this is

the wrong place I actually wanted them

to add this. You can see I have this one

right here, sketch flow. It shows the

company, shows the contact, the email,

shows the product URL, and the product

summary. So that is working. It's even

showing inquiry details along with

status in the date received. So that's

pretty cool, but it did not add it to

the exact database I wanted to add it

to. So I wanted it to add to this

database and just basically upload it

here within these different cells as if

it were a spreadsheet for example. It

didn't understand that that's what we

wanted to do. So that was the end result

here for chatbt Atlas. And if I come

over to perplexity comment, let me show

you what this did. And I will say this

was not as good as ChapT Atlas was. You

could see it added these into this

potential sponsors database. But this is

the wrong potential sponsor database.

And if you look at this, you can see

that the data inside of here is not

properly formatted. So it says guest

company name, guest product URL, guest

platform summary, and then it does show

the actual request summary here, which I

guess is cool. But again, this did not

work as seamless as we wanted to. Maybe

obviously our instructions that we gave

both comet and atlas weren't as specific

as it needed to be in order to go ahead

and craft this prompt and build this

agent for us. But let me go ahead and

now talk about the key differences when

it comes to this platform, aside from

just using the agent mode for each of

these browsers. All right, so right off

the bat, the user interface of both of

these browsers are very similar. Again,

you can see that we have the CHACHBT

logo here, we have the Perplexity logo,

and we have this box here that we could

input our prompt obviously or our

search. Inside of Chabbt Atlas, we have

this agent mode that we could just

toggle on. And then we could also go

ahead and click on any of these other

things. So we have the different

products that Chetchup BT has but

directly into our browser here. So you

can see we have deep research, we can

create images, we have canvas, study and

learn, we have access to all of these

apps that we have access to inside of

regular chatbt. So that is how this

functions and then same thing for

perplexity. You can see that we could

come here. It gives us these pre-prompts

that we could actually use. For example,

I could just click on this and it will

go through and actually look this up for

me or actually begin performing these

tasks. And then for both of these, if I

just look up something, let's just say

Dallas Cowboys schedule. So, for

example, I just searched Dallas Cowboys

schedule. And this is what CHBT Atlas

shows me. I think that this looks a

little bit more minimalistic. And I

think this is more pleasing to the eye

than Perplexity has right here. This

looks kind of dry, if that's the right

word. I just don't think the interface

of this looks the best. But for

Perplexity, we have this button up here

where is the AI assistant where we could

pull it up. We could ask further

questions or we could even have it go

off and perform tasks for us. And then

the same exact thing for chatbt. I could

click this ask chatbt button. It'll pull

up this side window where we could

either chat with whatever is on this

page or we could then just click on

agent mode and tell it to go perform

different tasks for us. So both of these

platforms have very similar user

interface and functionality. I will say

after testing these side by side

comparing them to build an agent inside

of Zapier agents, I think chatbt Atlas

was a bit better at doing this. Neither

of these were seamless, I do want to

mention, but I did give it a more

comprehensive task. Instead of it just

going to find cheap flights for me or

something, I wanted to come up with

something that was a bit more dynamic.

I'm surprised that both of these were

able to actually spin up an agent that

actually worked. It didn't work the

best, but both of them were good. I

think Atlas was a little bit better. I

will say another thing I like about

Atlas is the fact that it has all of my

context on ChachevT. So, I could just

pull this up and this is like my actual

Chachabt account here. So I could ask

any of the questions regarding myself or

any of my previous conversations I've

had and it has context to that. So I use

chatbt every single day like lots of

times. So the fact that it has context

on all these things, how I perform

different tasks, different things that

it needs to know about my business and

stuff, that was just much smoother than

Perplexity Comment was for me

personally. Anyways guys, thank you so

much for staying to the end of this

video. If you got some value, leave a

like, leave a comment, let me know what

you think, which platform are you going

to use. And again, thank you for saying

the end of this video and I'll see you

guys in the next

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