OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports.
Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. Nine months later, it is being retired.
The move is not a retreat from browsing so much as a reshuffle. OpenAI confirmed the closure alongside “ChatGPT Work”, a new push that bundles its tools into a single desktop app.
Atlas’s ideas live on inside that app. It gains a built-in browser that can visit sites, log into accounts, and download files, plus a separate cloud browser on OpenAI’s servers where agents complete tasks remotely.
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