OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Intention at Google Chrome

OpenAI introduced on Tuesday it’s rolling out a brand new web browser referred to as Atlas that integrates immediately with ChatGPT. Atlas contains options like a sidebar window folks can use to ask ChatGPT questions in regards to the net pages they go to. There’s additionally an AI agent that may click on round and full duties on a person’s behalf.

“We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned throughout a livestream asserting Atlas. “Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.”

Atlas debuts as Silicon Valley races to make use of generative AI to reshape how folks expertise the web. Google has additionally introduced a plethora of AI options for its well-liked Chrome browser, together with a “sparkle” button that launches its Gemini chatbot. Chrome stays the most used browser worldwide.

OpenAI says the Atlas browser might be obtainable beginning in the present day for ChatGPT customers globally on macOS. Windows and cell choices are at present within the works. Atlas is free to make use of, although its agent options are reserved for subscribers to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus or ChatGPT Pro plans.

“We’ve made some major upgrades to search on ChatGPT when accessed via Atlas,” Ryan O’Rouke, OpenAI’s lead designer for the browser, mentioned in the course of the livestream. If a person asks for film evaluations within the Atlas search bar, a chatbot-style reply will pop up first, relatively than the extra conventional assortment of blue hyperlinks customers may count on when looking out the online through Google.