OpenAI and Atlas enter the browser war

Atlas, a new AI browser from OpenAI, incorporates ChatGPT into the web experience. This allows the assistant to monitor what users are seeing, remember websites, and employ agentic capabilities to accomplish tasks online. The details: using a sidebar assistant, search integrations, personalizations, and features like Agent mode, Atlas is "built with ChatGPT at its core." The browser has optional "memories" that allow ChatGPT to save information from websites viewed in order to automate repetitive operations and customize subsequent responses. Initially restricted to Plus and Pro users, agent mode allows ChatGPT to click and perform web functions independently within Atlas. Safety measures were put in place by OAI to stop Atlas from downloading, accessing apps, or acting on sensitive websites without express consent. Users may import bookmarks, history, and other information from their browsers using Atlas, which is initially only available on Macs in preview for Plus, Pro, and Business tiers. After hearing rumors about OAI's browser goals for a year, the moment has finally arrived. Although Atlas doesn't seem like a release with any ground-breaking features (yet) that would force users to permanently abandon traditional options, it does pose an immediate challenge to Comet, Dia, and other early AI browser entrants.