(Washington, D.C.) OpenAI, the developer of the American chatbot ChatGPT, has launched ChatGPT Atlas, the first AI-powered web browser. This marks a new front in OpenAI's competition with Alphabet's Google.
"This is an AI browser powered by ChatGPT at its core," OpenAI CEO Altman said at the launch event on Tuesday (October 21). He noted that in agent mode, ChatGPT will autonomously operate the browser and return search results to the user. "You can watch it or not, you don't have to watch it, but it will browse the web for you."
ChatGPT Atlas is designed to provide users with a more personalized online experience and can perform tasks on their behalf, such as booking flights, editing documents, or shopping. Every time a user visits a website in their browser, they will see an "Ask ChatGPT" link. Clicking it will open a sidebar to interact with the current page content.
With this launch, OpenAI aims to leverage its massive ChatGPT user base of 800 million active users per week to deeply penetrate every aspect of users' online lives by collecting browsing behavior data. This move could accelerate the broader shift toward AI-driven search models, as more users opt for conversational tools that synthesize information rather than relying on traditional Google keyword search results, intensifying competition between OpenAI and Google.
ChatGPT Atlas is now available globally on macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android versions to follow. Currently, only paid users, such as ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers, have access to more advanced AI agent features.
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