OpenAI isn’t alone in trying to reinvent browsers with AI. Search engine Perplexity makes a browser called Comet, and Google has in recent months added its Gemini bot to Chrome – and says it will soon also add agent capabilities that let AI do tasks for you. (The Washington Post has partnerships with OpenAI and Perplexity.)

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Generative AI is the transformative technology of the moment. Tools like ChatGPT are helping people realize the power of AI by automating tasks such as writing and proofreading text, creating images and videos, and even solving complex problems–or, at ...