OpenAI unveiled its first artificial intelligence-powered web browser, putting the ChatGPT maker in competition on a new front with Alphabet’s Google.
The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is designed to be a more personalised web experience and also field tasks such as booking flights and editing documents on a user’s behalf.
Each time a user visits a website within the browser, they will see an “Ask ChatGPT” that pulls up a sidebar to engage with what is on the page. The user might, say, open up a movie review, then ask ChatGPT to summarise it, or find a recipe and ask ChatGPT to help order the ingredients online.
“This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a live-streamed event on Tuesday. He said AI “represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity” to rethink the browser.
Atlas would be available globally on macOS to start, the company said, with plans to expand to Windows, iOS and Android “soon”. More advanced AI agent features would only be available to paid ChatGPT Plus and Pro users for now.
