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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by rvz on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:25AM (#44528374)
> But we strongly believe that a privacy-first browser with local LLM support is more important than ever – since agents will have access to so much sensitive data.

How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering?

But if it doesn't make money, I can only assume that the team will be acqui-hired to answer that question.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by felarof on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:23AM (#44533201)
> How does this make money? Surely this will have a cloud offering?

Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version.

This is similar to how many open-source projects sustain development.

And enterprise browsers are picking up -- Island browser, Talon browser.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by rvz on Friday July 11, 2025 @01:30PM (#44534891)
> Our plan is to make the consumer version of the browser for free and sell licenses for enterprise version.

Makes sense and the software license chosen (AGPL-3.0) also makes sense as well.

Sounds like a clear path to monetization and much better than some of the VC backed browser-first companies out there.

Good luck.

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Re:Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet by felarof on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:11PM (#44535876)
Thank you!
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