mm-news-@dmin OpenAI chief says the company has built an AI-powered web browser around ChatGPT.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday announced an “Atlas” search browser, leveraging its artificial intelligence prowess in a direct challenge to Google Chrome.
OpenAI chief Sam Altman said in a streamed presentation that the company has built an AI-powered web browser around ChatGPT.
OpenAI has been ramping up its challenge to Google. It has responded by rapidly building more AI capabilities into search and across its platform.
Shares of Alphabet, which owns the Chrome browser, were down 2.6% in afternoon trading, Reuters reported.
The product is the latest entrant in a fast-growing field of AI browsers that includes. Perplexity’s Comet and Opera’s Neon as companies weave in tools that can summarise pages. Fill out forms and draft code to attract users.
Atlas lets users open a ChatGPT sidebar in any window to summarise content, compare products, or analyze data from any site.
In the agent mode in Atlas, ChatGPT interacts with sites for users. Who can use it to do tasks from start to finish, like researching and shopping for a trip.
The browser is now available globally on Apple’s macOS. It will soon be made available on Windows, iOS, and Android.
Reuters. In July reported the AI startup, backed by Microsoft, was close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that would challenge Alphabet’s market-dominating Google Chrome.
