ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI launches web browser centered around its chatbot | Technology

OpenAI on Tuesday launched an AI-powered web browser built around its marquee chatbot.

“Meet our new browser ChatGPT Atlas” tweet from the company To read.

The browser is designed to provide a more personalized web experience and includes a ChatGPT sidebar that allows users to ask questions or interact with various aspects of each website they visit, as shown in a video released alongside the announcement. According to OpenAI’s announcement, Atlas is now available globally on Apple’s Mac operating system and will soon be available on Windows, iOS, and Android.

Users can open the ChatGPT sidebar and ask it to “summarize content, compare products, or analyze data from any site.” website reader. The company has also started rolling out a preview of a virtual assistant called “Agent Mode” to select premium accounts. Agent Mode allows users to ask ChatGPT to complete “start-to-finish” tasks, such as “researching and shopping for a trip.”

The browser also allows ChatGPT to edit and replace highlighted text. An example on the website shows an email with highlighted text and a suggested prompt: “Make this look more professional.”

The company says users have full control over privacy settings: “You control what it remembers about you, how your data is used, and the privacy settings that apply when you browse the web.” Currently, Atlas users will automatically disable the option to allow browsing data to be used to train ChatGPT models, for example. And like other browsers, the user can delete browsing and web history. However, although the Atlas browser does not store exact copies of the content the user searches for, ChatGPT will “remember facts and information from your browsing” if a feature called “Browser memories” is enabled. It’s not immediately clear how the company shares browsing information with third parties.

OpenAI isn’t the first company to launch with an AI-powered web browser. For example, Google has integrated parts of its Gemini AI model into Chrome. Other companies, such as Perplexity AI, have also introduced AI-powered browsers. Google shares fell 4% immediately following OpenAI’s announcement as investors feared a threat to its flagship browser Chrome, the world’s most popular browser.