Your Browser Just Got a Brain: Samsung's Agentic AI Move With Perplexity

For decades, the browser has been the most powerful dumb tool on your computer. It fetched pages, stored bookmarks, and waited. You did all the thinking - clicking, comparing, remembering, switching tabs, losing tabs, searching history for that one thing you saw three days ago. The browser just watched. Samsung just ended that era. In late March 2026, Samsung officially launched Samsung Browser for Windows - and buried inside that announcement was something far more significant than a new desktop app. Samsung introduced a new AI-powered assistant built directly into Samsung Browser that brings agentic AI into the browsing experience, developed in partnership with Perplexity. The browser is designed to understand natural language and the context of the page users are viewing, as well as activity across tabs, making it easier to explore content and take action. This isn't a chatbot bolted to the side. This is the browser itself becoming an agent. What "Agentic" Actually Means Here The wo