OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity's Comet: CRAZY Agentic Browsers

About this video

• Video Title: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity's Comet: CRAZY Agentic Browsers
• Channel: Betterway
• Speakers: Not explicitly mentioned, likely the creator of the channel.
• Duration: 00:21:28

Overview

This video compares two AI browsers, OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet, by testing their capabilities in three specific tasks: summarizing YouTube videos, enhancing email drafts, and utilizing their agent modes to add items to an Amazon shopping cart. The creator evaluates how each browser performs in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and user experience.

Key takeaways

• YouTube Video Summarization: Both ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet provide comprehensive and comparable summaries of YouTube videos.
• Email Enhancement: Both browsers offer functionality to draft email replies. Comet's agent mode actively interacts with the browser to fill in the reply box, while Atlas provides the response within the chat for copy-pasting, though it later demonstrates agent mode capabilities for this task as well.
• Agent Mode Comparison:
  • Information Gathering: Atlas was able to gather information about a YouTube channel without needing to enter agent mode, while Comet did.
  • Email Drafting: Comet's agent mode directly filled the email reply box, while Atlas initially provided the response in chat but later showed its agent mode composing the email.
  • Amazon Shopping Cart: Comet appeared faster in adding items, focusing on price optimization. Atlas took more time, prioritizing quality and reviewed items, and referencing reviews from sources like Tech Radar. Atlas ultimately finished and added items to the cart, while Comet encountered issues with a specific item (desk lamp) but eventually also completed the task, resulting in a significantly lower total cost by optimizing for price.
• User Interface and Experience: Atlas's agent mode UI was noted as "cool," and it offered options for how to handle tasks. Comet often immediately entered its agent mode.
• Overall Preference: The speaker leans towards ChatGPT Atlas due to its newer status from OpenAI and its approach of reviewing items for quality and reviews in agent mode, though acknowledges both browsers performed well and the choice depends on user preference (quality vs. price optimization).