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The web is evolving fast—and this week brings three major leaps forward. Comet, a newly launched intelligent browser, is reimagining how we interact online by replacing cluttered tabs with a unified, conversational interface that understands user intent, helping you complete complex tasks and explore ideas without breaking flow. Meanwhile, Hugging Face has released SmolLM3, a compact yet powerful 3B-parameter language model boasting 128K token context, multilingual reasoning, and state-of-the-art performance—ideal for chatbots, RAG, and low-resource deployments. And in a bold move, OpenAI is preparing to launch its own AI-powered browser, built on Chromium and designed to keep users within an AI-driven experience, directly challenging Chrome by merging web navigation with the power of ChatGPT. Together, these updates signal a major shift toward smarter, more fluid digital experiences across browsing, research, and real-time AI applications.

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Comet Launches Intelligent Web Browsing for the Modern Internet

Comet is a newly launched web browser designed for the modern internet, aiming to move beyond traditional browsing and searching by providing an intelligent, fluid interface that matches the way people think and interact online. Instead of managing countless tabs and fragmented experiences, Comet unifies browsing into a single, smart interface that understands user context and intent. It enables users to ask questions, compare information, and complete complex tasks—like booking meetings or making purchases—directly within their browsing flow, turning research and analysis into natural conversations. Comet is built with a focus on delivering accurate, trustworthy answers, supporting better decision-making in an era where reliable information is crucial. Available initially to Perplexity Max subscribers with a gradual invite-based rollout, Comet transforms any webpage into a space for curiosity, allowing users to highlight text for instant explanations, explore related ideas without losing context, and receive proactive, personalized assistance that adapts to their unique ways of thinking.

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Hugging Face has released SmolLM3, a compact 3-billion-parameter language model that brings advanced multilingual reasoning and long-context understanding—up to 128,000 tokens—while remaining highly efficient and accessible for deployment on resource-constrained hardware. SmolLM3 is available in both a base and an instruction-tuned variant, supports six major European languages, and delivers state-of-the-art performance among models of its size, rivaling or outperforming larger models in tasks like tool usage, multi-step reasoning, and multilingual question answering. Built on a modified transformer architecture with innovations like Grouped Query Attention and NoPE, SmolLM3 was trained on over 11 trillion tokens using a diverse mix of web, code, math, and reasoning data, and is fully open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license for both research and commercial use. Its dual-mode reasoning, strong tool-calling abilities, and efficient memory usage make it ideal for applications such as chatbots, document summarizers, retrieval-augmented generation, and edge deployments where smaller, transparent models are needed without sacrificing performance.

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OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-powered web browser in the coming weeks, directly challenging Google Chrome's dominance by integrating advanced artificial intelligence and a native chat interface reminiscent of ChatGPT. The browser, built on Google's open-source Chromium code, will allow users to interact with the web through conversational AI, keeping many interactions within the browser itself rather than clicking out to external websites. This approach not only aims to transform how users browse and accomplish tasks—such as booking reservations or filling forms via integrated AI agents like Operator—but also gives OpenAI direct access to valuable user data, a key driver of Google's ad revenue and search business. With the potential to reach ChatGPT's 500 million weekly active users, OpenAI's browser could significantly disrupt the digital advertising landscape and redefine expectations for web browsing experiences. The move is part of OpenAI's broader strategy to embed its AI services more deeply into users' daily lives and workflows, following recent expansions into hardware and continued competition with Google and other AI startups.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Lottielab - Animate your designs in seconds. - Import SVGs, Lotties, from Figma or create from scratch - Speed up your animation workflow with AI - Animate with a simple but powerful editor and timeline - Export as Lottie, Gif or MP4 to any platform - Collaborate with your team

• VSCO - VSCO, formerly known as VSCO Cam, is a photography mobile app for iOS and Android devices. The app was created by Joel Flory and Greg Lutze. The VSCO app allows users to capture photos in the app and edit them, using preset filters and editing tools.

• fileAI - fileAI gives developers structured, zero-shot data from any file. Built for LLMs and AI agents, our AI OCR transforms unstructured files into clean, enriched, and validated data, ready for downstream automation via configurable UI, API or MCP.

• Weavy - Weavy is a node-based design platform for creative pros. Combine any AI model with pro editing tools in a single canvas. Don’t just generate assets - build reusable design machines. That’s Artistic Intelligence: where your craft meets AI. Try Weavy today.

• Bookshelf - Bookshelf turns any newsletter into a custom GPT so readers can chat with your archive, ask smart questions, and get answers from your writing — not the web. Setup takes 2 minutes, no code required.

• Pepper AI - PepperAI is your intelligent AI secretary. Automatically schedule tasks, reschedule events, generate documents, and chat with an AI assistant — all in one place.

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• Warp Agentic Dev Terminal - Warp lets you build, code, and deploy with multiple AI agents, offering fast, secure, and collaborative development for individuals and enterprises.

• Veo 3 Audio-Video Magic- Veo 3 now creates audio and video from a single image, enabling dynamic scenes, dialogue, and character consistency with just a prompt.

• IBM Power11 Autonomous AI Server - IBM Power11 delivers zero planned downtime, on-chip AI acceleration, quantum-safe security, and up to 28% better energy efficiency for resilient, hybrid cloud enterprise IT.

• MemOS 1.0 Unified AI Memory - MemOS 1.0 offers a structured, multi-tier memory framework for AGI, enabling adaptable, shareable, and efficient long-term and instant memory across AI systems.