Perplexity · AI · Jun 2026
Perplexity - Comet is here. A web browser built for today’s internet.
Comet · Jul 2025 · 1:12 · AI-annotated
- Length
- 1:12
- Scenes
- 25 · 2.9 s avg
- Product on screen
- 0:00
- Features shown
- 3
- Voiceover
- Yes
Comet’s 1:12 launch film runs 25 scenes, about 2.9 s each. The product is on screen from the first frame and 3 features are revealed. There is no explicit call to action; a voiceover carries the film. The video is built as a logo flash, a serif promise, and three feature beats, each opened by a serif title card (Ask more, Understand more, Do more than ever) and shown through a 3D browser window that tilts to face the camera, then closes on two taglines and the logo over a starfield. Pacing is slow and deliberate at about five cuts a minute, with signature moves: taglines sharpening into focus left to right, the recurring sphere transitions, and the final pull back through the spiral starfield
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01 · Product intro · 0:00–0:03
On a cream field, a thin black line mark at center draws itself outward, its angular strokes extending and rotating into a six-pointed star, then softening into a rounded pinwheel. The mark grows and turns in place, no other elements present.
Techniques: Morph
Camera: Static
02 · Product intro · 0:03–0:05
A giant black serif letterform fills the cream frame, then pulls back and clears, revealing the centered tagline with small dots drifting around it.
On-screen text: “A browser built for you.”
Techniques: Masking, Kinetic type
Camera: Static
03 · Product intro · 0:05–0:08
On a plain cream field, a serif line 'A browser built for you.' scales in and out, then 'Connecting the dots between' fades in centered; an ellipsis is appended and a flat dark-gray circle with a white dot slides in from the right.
On-screen text: “A browser built for you.”, “Connecting the dots between...”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
04 · Product intro · 0:08–0:08
A small white circle glides diagonally across a black field, moving from the center toward the upper-left corner in one quick pass.
Camera: Static
05 · Product intro · 0:08–0:09
On a cream background, a teal circular app icon scales up on the left while a serif list of feature names, Tabs, Emails and Calendars, appears on the right, the lower lines blurred by depth of field.
On-screen text: “Tabs”, “Emails”, “Calendars”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
06 · Feature reveal · 0:09–0:15
A circular icon on the left cycles its color and pattern while a vertical list of serif words scrolls up on the right, each word snapping into sharp focus as it aligns with the icon. The icon shrinks and exits, then Ask more fades in at center.
On-screen text: “Tabs”, “Emails”, “Calendars”, “Socials”, “Life”, “Ask more”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
07 · Feature reveal · 0:15–0:16
A browser window with Google Maps of London sits in 3D perspective on a white background, rotating from an angled view to face the viewer. A cursor hovers over the red chat button at the top right, marked by the caption “Ask more”.
On-screen text: “Ask more”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Cursor demo
Camera: Push in
08 · Feature reveal · 0:16–0:20
A static Google Maps view of London fills the left half, while a prompt panel on the right types out a walking-route request character by character, ending beside a teal send button.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Push in
09 · Feature reveal · 0:20–0:24
A tilted 3D browser window straightens to face the camera, showing a map beside an Assistant panel. The map draws a blue walking route between London landmarks as the assistant answer text updates in sync.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
10 · Feature reveal · 0:24–0:25
A Chrome window displays Google Maps with a walking route from the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace and an Assistant panel listing the steps on the right. A cursor rests on the Assistant button as the whole window eases back and centers in the frame.
Techniques: Cursor demo
Camera: Static
11 · Feature reveal · 0:25–0:26
A washed-out map interface fades to a cream background as the serif headline “Understand more” sharpens into view at center. A large orange sphere with a white curved highlight slides in from the top-left corner.
On-screen text: “Understand more”
Camera: Pull out
12 · Feature reveal · 0:26–0:35
A blurred serif headline “Understand more” sits left of an out-of-focus Slack window, then both sharpen as the headline vanishes. The view reframes onto the Assistant panel where a cursor types a prompt and an answer scrolls in.
On-screen text: “Understand more”
Techniques: UI zoom, Cursor demo
Camera: Push in
13 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:36
A blurred chat interface defocuses to a plain cream background. The words “and do more” fade in one by one in gray serif type, left of center, on a locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “and do more”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
14 · Feature reveal · 0:36–0:37
On a cream background, the serif line and do more than ever sharpens in from left to right while a small red textured sphere rises out of the top of the frame. A flat browser window with a search bar slides up from the bottom edge.
On-screen text: “and do more than ever”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
15 · Feature reveal · 0:37–0:39
A browser window shows a large serif headline over a centered search bar. The headline fades out as the frame zooms onto the bar, and a hand cursor hovers the teal voice button, popping a small tooltip.
On-screen text: “and do more than ever”
Techniques: Cursor demo, UI zoom
Camera: Pan
16 · Feature reveal · 0:39–0:48
On a plain cream screen, a disc of fine gray particles swirls and pulses at center while a close button and a mic button rest at the bottom. At 6s a small pill of overlapping source logos with a count appears at the top.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
17 · Feature reveal · 0:48–0:58
A Perplexity browser window floats in 3D perspective on a pale gray backdrop, tilted toward the viewer. Inside, a YouTube page plays a keynote: a man in a black tee gestures on a dark stage, then the view widens to the full stage with an overhead diagram.
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
18 · Other · 0:58–0:59
A blurred interface mockup dissolves out of a cream field, then a centered serif tagline sharpens into focus from left to right, the first word leading the rest of the line into clarity.
On-screen text: “Ask anything, anywhere.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · Other · 0:59–1:00
A serif tagline sits centered on a cream field with a soft extruded shadow. The words then slide apart vertically and fade as a dark rounded dome rises from the bottom edge of the frame.
On-screen text: “Ask anything, anywhere.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
20 · Other · 1:00–1:03
A white serif headline, “Browse at the speed of thought.”, scales up to center frame over a dark, out-of-focus cluster of orange, red and teal spheres. The frame stays locked-off.
On-screen text: “Browse at the speed of thought.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
21 · Other · 1:03–1:04
A blurred ring of colored orbs fills the frame, then the camera pulls back through a starfield to reveal a distant spiral galaxy. The centered serif line stays locked and sharpens as the view recedes.
On-screen text: “Browse at the speed of thought.”
Techniques: Parallax, Particles
Camera: Static
22 · Other · 1:04–1:05
A black starfield holds the gray tagline that scales in place, then a bright white orb flares at the center as the text dissolves, leaving the glowing point against the drifting stars.
On-screen text: “Browse at the speed of thought.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
23 · Outro · 1:05–1:06
A white arc-and-dot logo mark sits centered over a slowly rotating spiral of stars. The mark blooms with a bright glow, then the glow fades and the central disc shrinks to a small dot as the star field swirls.
Camera: Static
24 · Outro · 1:06–1:10
A white wave-shaped logo holds the center of a black starfield. The stars spiral slowly around it in a pinwheel pattern, rotating inward while the logo stays fixed and sharp. The motion is steady and slow across the clip.
Techniques: Particles
Camera: Static
25 · Outro · 1:10–1:12
A plain black frame holds static for the entire clip. No elements, text, or motion appear; the screen remains uniformly dark from start to finish.
Camera: Static





