# Blog

## Why the browser is the best place for an AI agent

The web is the most information-dense surface ever built. Every website is already structured for humans to read and click — making it the perfect operating environment for an autonomous AI.

## Local-first AI: running Open Comet fully offline with Ollama

Cloud AI is powerful but has tradeoffs — latency, cost, and privacy. We built Ollama support so you can run the full agent stack on your own machine with zero data leaving your device.

## How Deep Research works under the hood

Multi-source synthesis isn't just "search and summarise". We'll walk through how Open Comet decomposes a research query, parallelises page reads, resolves conflicting information, and assembles a cited report.

## Ask Mode vs Auto Mode — knowing when to hand over control

Letting an AI agent act autonomously in your browser is powerful and risky in equal measure. Here's how we think about the trust gradient and when each mode makes sense.