New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Perplexity AI's CEO Aravind Srinivas has warned iPhone users that an app currently listed on Apple's App Store claiming to be Comet is "fake and spam", urging users to wait for Perplexity's official announcement before downloading. The alert follows growing public interest in Comet after Perplexity expanded access to the AI browser and teased an iOS release.

In a direct message to users on X, Srinivas wrote: "The Comet app currently on the iOS App Store is fake and spam and not from Perplexity. You will directly hear from us when Comet iOS is ready for pre-registering and downloading." The CEO's post aims to head off confusion and protect users from potentially malicious or data-harvesting impostor apps.

Comet has ...