OpenAI launches browser to compete with Google Chrome

Atlas differentiates itself with a home page opening to a ChatGPT chat box.

- By NILESH CHRISTOPHER

OPENAI has amassed 800 million weekly users on ChatGPT since its 2022 launch. Above, the AI app.

(RICHARD DREW Associated Press)

OpenAl launched its own web browser called Atlas, hoping to use its artificial intelligence superpowers to take away market share from Google, which has dominated the browser and search markets for decades.

“Al represents a rare once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAl, said during Tuesday’s launch of Atlas. “Tabs were great, but we haven't seen a lot of innovation since then.”

With ChatGPT at its core, users can use Atlas to chat with a website, find products and ask it to do things on behalf of users, such as booking appointments or planing events, while continuing to browse.

Whereas yesteryear web browsers accessed the internet through a URL and search box, future internet access will be through the chat experience and a web browser, Altman said.