Hey Creators, If you signed up for the Zapier AI Summit, LeVar Burton is on stage as a keynote in 10 mins. I will see if I can record my screen to share it with you.

(Okay, that's kinda a "clickbait" title, but I'm not trying to sell you anything, just getting your attention! 😆) I thought I'd discuss Perplexity & Comet Browser that's been brought up in here recently! So, I know we recently discussed Perplexity and its Comet browser, whether anyone is using it, etc. Well, as you may have heard me whining about over the past couple of months, my longtime multi-LLM/multi modal AI platform glitched for a month in the summer, with crickets from customer support and no explanations, just the silent treatment. Well, it's been working again for the last month or two, but I already cancelled it, the subscription sunsets in about a month. Anyway, during that blackout period, to get the workflow moving again, I started finding work-arounds. I leaned hard on Microsoft's Copilot - very handy, built into Windows, MS Office, Edge Browser etc. Only at the free tier, well, it's not the most extremely stable, but it's pretty durn good with powerful AI (even GPT-5 available) for "chats" and many productivity tasks. To a lesser extent, I've also used Gemini's free-tier, still Gemini 2.5, and NotebookLM a bunch, and you may have noticed how Google really came out swinging in the 2nd/3rd quarter this year. Crazy the capability at the free tier. Well, I just signed up for Perplexity. I've been wanting to try it for a long time because it's know for its research-centric, and good sourcing (references). It does appear to have a ton of utility built in, it does seem to make a solid reference list for queries (gonna be nice for research), and - of course - it's "agentic" to some degree, you can connect it to outlook/gmail calendars, and a bunch of other apps so that it apparently can check your calendar, add things to the calendar, check and respond to emails, etc. One thing I've loved about the other platform I've been using, besides all the custom tools and prompts, was that documents could be uploaded (Kinda like NotebookLM - but sources are "trapped" in notebooks here, and only available inside the notebook they've been added to). In my (ex)fav AI Extension, uploaded docs, pics, pasted text, links, could be organized in folders and always available in any chat - so handy.

Hey Creators, Has anyone tried Perplexity's Comet AI Browser? I don't use Perplexity all that much if ever even with a free year of Pro I was granted. It's just not the AI tool for me for what I need and use AI for. I've compared its results against several others and it just wasn't as good. I think that one is more for research sort of tasks and not creativity...unless it's changed. I haven't been in there in almost a year. But now I have an invitation to try the new Comet for free. I haven't even tried the GPT version of that yet. So, I'm wondering if anyone has and what you think of it. Perhaps over the weekend I'll go down the rabbit hole. Your thoughts?