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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