Comet AI Browser — Tajikistan's Pilot of an Agentic AI Browser for Ministry of Industry Staff

At the AI CONF investment conference in Dushanbe in October 2025 — where more than 20 agreements worth over $117 million were signed — Tajikistan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies agreed with US firm Perplexity AI and Epsilon3.ai to pilot the Comet AI Browser inside government administration, described by the partners as the world's first agent-based AI browser built specifically for the public sector, according to The Times of Central Asia and Tajikistan's Asia-Plus news service.

Comet uses natural-language processing and automated source comparison to help officials gather statistics, draft regulatory documents, and monitor procurement activity and economic trends, aiming to speed up administrative workflows. The pilot phase, run in fall 2025, trained 140 employees at the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies to use the tool; a broader rollout to additional government agencies is planned for 2026 if the pilot is judged successful.

No performance results, error rates, or productivity metrics from the pilot have been published in available reporting, and the initiative's specific funding allocation within the wider $117 million AI CONF agreements was not disclosed — it should be read as an early-stage, single-ministry trial rather than an evaluated deployment.

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