OpenAI’s Atlas is more about ChatGPT than the web

OpenAI unveils its AI browser The ChatGPT Atlas during a livestream on Tuesday. As are other AI browsers By browser company, The neon of the opera, Confusion has arrivedt, and general catalyst-supported strawberry. OpenAI’s launch is notable because of its sheer scale to potentially reach 800 million weekly ChatGPT consumers. For the company, the browser is much more about keeping ChatGPT central than making web browsing better.

While Atlas is currently only available on Mac, the company is already working on bringing it to Windows, iOS and Android – where ChatGPT already exists. OpenAI has made the browser available to all users, rather than opting for an invitation system like its rivals. The browser’s core proposition is that you think of ChatGPT as the first interaction surface for searching and answering, rather than Google.

All AI browsers have the same understanding of search and query. Instead of performing a search query, you’ll type something into your address bar to get an answer from an AI chatbot instead of browsing through pages of links.

And OpenAI, like other browser makers, thinks that Atlas will change the way you browse the web, as Sam Altman made clear at the launch. “We think AI presents a once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be, how to use one, and how to use the web most productively. Tabs were great but there hasn’t been much innovation since then,” Altman said in his opening speech.

Associate Technical Leaders beautiful pichai And Satya Nadella, Talked about AI as a platform shift. However, consumer phones and desktop operating systems are still the primary way to access their AI tools. OpenAI wants to own as many chatgpt distribution pipes as possible. Last week, we saw Meta close their doors with third-party chatbots Chatgpt and Confusion on WhatsAppwhich has 3 billion monthly users. This means that platform owners can put the brakes on distribution at any time.

For OpenAI, Atlas will also present opportunities to integrate ChatGPT and other products better than other platforms. People can refer multiple websites directly instead of posting links on ChatGPT. The company already uses a headless browser for its agents. With Atlas, it can have more control over the feature. It already integrates a writing assistant hover that shows the text field.

What’s more, the company is working to integrate its app SDK, which lets you call other apps within ChatGPT, to improve discoverability.

The memory feature is also important for power users of ChatGPT. The feature considers browsing history along with your ChatGPT history to answer with that context in mind. You may be asking, “What was my presentation planning working document?” And ChatGPT will fetch that link for you. This means that ChatGPT gets more context about you as you spend more time in the browser. OpenAI can use this context and provide it to other apps when it starts to roll out Sign in extensively with ChatGPT.

Both ChatGPT and the Memory feature as a default option in the address bar are designed to give OpenAI more data, so it has more context for you and, in turn, can serve you a better product. The browser doesn’t have an ad-blocker, or a VPN, a reading mode, or a translation feature to improve my browsing experience for any site. Rather, I need to tell ChatGPT to summarize the content or find something on the page. As if opening a page is designed to give ChatGPT more context rather than using the page’s content.

In contrast, browser company Arc had some useful ideas about redesigning the browser experience, using e.g AI to rename downloaded files or Customize a web page by letting you move elements.

The result is more than a browser; This is a broad canvas for ChatGPT itself. Fiji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, put forward this idea his blog Atlas launch outline.

“When we first released ChatGPT, we weren’t sure how people would use it. Now that we have feedback and signals from millions of people around the world, it’s clear that ChatGPT needs to be much more than a simple chatbot to begin with. Over time, we see ChatGPT becoming the operating system for your life: It’s a fully connected and supportive platform that helps you achieve your long-term goals. said.

The big question is for OpenAI, whose default browser is Chrome, Safari or Edge, to switch to its own browser and wrest some market share from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. OpenAI ChatGPT is steadily growing in number of users. But it’s not clear whether an average user wants to mix their browser and chatbot experience. Chrome succeeded because it was fast, and people wanted to use Google Queries as their default initial experience of the Internet ChatGPT is perfect for Atlas users who have replaced Google with ChatGPT, but to replace Chrome, OpenAI needs to ensure that billions of users fall into that habit.