Microsoft Edge is now an AI browser. And they've rolled out a whole bunch of really interesting new features I wanted to cover on the podcast today. I've already made an episode talking a little bit about what they've announced when they made their big announcement. But I wanted to break down some of the actual examples of use cases I've been using it for that I've been pretty impressed with. I'll talk about some things that I think it's doing really well and some areas I think

that they'll be improving on. But overall, if I'm being 100% honest, this feels like maybe one of the first times I'm actually tempted to switch my browser that I use the most frequently, which for my last five years has been brave. It's this privacy browser. And it kind of blocks ads. So I've enjoyed that. But it doesn't have any of these new AI features.

And is these is these basically tools are getting better and better, I'm, you know, basically feeling like I would love some of the new features added into edge. So this is really cool. And I want to break down some of the great things they're doing here. The other thing I wanted to mention is this isn't the first quote unquote-unquote AI browser, right? We know that perplexity with Comet has come out with a tool just recently. But the problem with that is it's $200 a month. And I'm not really sold on spending $200 a month to use an quote-unquote AI browser, something that I've been basically using for free my whole life. So Edge seems like a really awesome option. It is, you know, free and it's built into all of the browsers that they have.

All right.

So I want to get into the first example of what I've been trying it out for.

I'm looking at barbecues.

And so I went over on Amazon and saw a bunch of barbecues that looked interesting.

And instead of having to go and, you know, click on each of them individually, I actually went and opened up a tab for all of them, all of the different barbecues I was interested in. And instead of having to go and read all of the specs and dimensions and pricing of every single product and try to compare them, I don't know, make like a spreadsheet and maybe make some cells. Might be like a way I've done this sort of research in the past. I actually tried just going straight to edge. So basically on the right hand side of Edge, there's a little icon, a co-pilot icon. You click and it opens up. You also would be able to see if you have a brand new tab of Edge opened up. you'll see in the top right hand corner on like a new tab. It says copilot Discover preview and it's toggled on. You can also toggle it off if you'd like. But regardless, when I first saw that, by the way, toggled on. I was like, oh man, I hate things that are automatically opted in. But I actually think that Microsoft has done this in a good way and basically to protect

your privacy still. So I'll show you exactly what happened. So basically I went, opened up all of

my tabs for different barbecues that I was interested in. I opened the side tab up and I said,

look at all my tabs and give me the cheapest barbecue I'm looking at. It then said, I can't see

your tabs because I haven't, because you haven't granted permission for me to view your browsing context. If you'd like to help me with that, you can enable this by going to our privacy settings and turning on the context clues toggle. Okay. So basically, there's a link to the privacy settings. And if you open it up, there's a little toggle that's by that's off by default.

And so you toggle that back on and then you're able to get access to this feature.

Honestly, this is, I think this is the best way they could have done this right.

Because basically, sure, like the, the edge thing is enabled by default,

but your privacy settings by default doesn't actually let it see what's on your

page, which I think is fantastic.

I don't think everyone wants this automatically looking at what is on their webpages, but if you want to use this, it's so useful, you're going to want the ability to toggle it on. So in any case, that I thought was really slick, and I appreciated that. I basically toggled it on and said, now try. And then it said, based on all of your open tabs, the cheapest barbecue grill you're currently looking at is the DNKM or charcoal grill outdoor barbecue.

Okay, basically it's this like $60 barbecue, to be honest.

It's probably a little too cheap for me, but that's what I asked for.

But the thing that I thought was really interesting here is when it gave the the barbecue a title

if you click through all of the Amazon listings I just like the way it's obviously much

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