OpenAI launches its own browser to compete with Google

OpenAI launched its ain web browser called Atlas, hoping to usage its artificial quality superpowers to instrumentality distant marketplace stock from Google, which has dominated the browser and hunt markets for decades.

“AI represents a uncommon once-in-a-decade accidental to rethink what a browser tin beryllium about,” Sam Altman, main enforcement of OpenAI, said during Tuesday’s motorboat of Atlas. “Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a batch of innovation since then.”

With ChatGPT astatine its core, users tin usage Atlas to chat with a website, find products and inquire it to bash things connected behalf of users, specified arsenic booking appointments oregon planing events, portion continuing to browse.

Whereas yesteryear web browsers accessed the net done a URL and hunt box, aboriginal net entree volition beryllium done the chat acquisition and a web browser, Altman said.

With the motorboat of Atlas, OpenAI isn’t conscionable looking to dethrone Google Chrome arsenic the default browser: It besides wants ChatGPT to beryllium the default operating strategy for the AI age.

Google has a wide caput start, owning the full exertion infrastructure, including its ain AI chips (called Tensor Processing Units) and its Gemini chatbot. And it commands a 90% hunt marketplace share.

OpenAI has amassed 800 cardinal play users connected ChatGPT since its motorboat successful 2022 and is utilizing that scope arsenic leverage to get developers to physique apps wrong ChatGPT, enabling users and AI agents to store from wrong the app. The institution is besides co-designing its ain AI chips that are tailored for ChatGPT.

OpenAI has received the backing of Nvidia, which promised to put $100 cardinal into the institution successful the coming years.

Atlas inactive faces an uphill conflict against Chrome, which has 3.45 cardinal planetary users.

ChatGPT Atlas has the emblematic browser features, specified arsenic tabs, bookmarks, and remembering passwords. But alternatively of a hunt bar, the location leafage of Atlas browser opens up a ChatGPT chat box.

The ongoing chat follows users arsenic they navigate the web and tin beryllium invoked astatine will. The browser’s representation features retrieve each the actions the idiosyncratic takes.

“If you crook connected browser memories, ChatGPT volition retrieve cardinal details from contented you browse to amended chat responses and connection smarter suggestions — similar creating a to-do database from your caller enactment oregon continuing to probe vacation gifts based connected products you’ve viewed,” the institution said successful a blog post.

Atlas’ cause mode does things connected users’ behalf, specified arsenic uncovering a market store, adding ingredients to a card, and ordering them, conscionable based connected a look shared by a user. Users tin besides program events, publication appointments and automate probe successful cause mode, which is disposable for Plus, Pro and Business users.

In September, a national tribunal ruled that Google had maintained an amerciable monopoly successful hunt and advertising, but did not necessitate the institution to merchantability Chrome, arsenic was primitively requested erstwhile the suit was brought.

During the people of the proceedings, OpenAI expressed involvement successful acquiring Chrome. Another browser competitor, Perplexity AI, besides placed a failed $34.5-billion bid to get Chrome, weeks aft launching Comet, an AI-powered browser.

In the precocious ‘90s, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer prevailed successful the combat against Netscape Navigator to go the default browser successful the idiosyncratic computing era.

In the aughts, Google Chrome’s emergence connected the backmost of smartphone adoption replaced Internet Explorer arsenic the default browser. And present ChatGPT Atlas mightiness beryllium the opening of the 3rd section of the browser wars.