OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a Google Chrome extension.
The move to shut down Atlas comes a few months after OpenAI’s CEO of applications Fidji Simo told the team to cut back on “side quests,” which led to the AI firm shutting down its AI video generation tool Sora.
For much of the past year, the AI industry had been engaged in a war to unseat Chrome as the place where people spend most of their time online. Perplexity launched Comet, The Browser Company launched Dia, and Google and Microsoft have updated Chrome and Edge, respectively, with new AI-powered features.
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