Amazon Targets Perplexity Over AI Shopping Assistant Comet

Amazon has accused AI startup Perplexity of illegally accessing its e-commerce systems through its agentic shopping assistant, Comet, marking one of the first major legal tests of how autonomous AI tools interact with major online platforms.

Perplexity and Comet

Perplexity is a fast-growing Silicon Valley AI company valued at around $18 billion and known for its “answer engine”, which competes with Google and ChatGPT by providing direct, cited responses rather than lists of links. Its newest product, Comet, extends this model into what’s known as “agentic browsing”, which is software that not only searches but acts.