OpenAI Will Shutter Its ChatGPT Browser Atlas in August
OpenAI will not be defeating Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox in the web browser market. The AI company announced plans to sunset Atlas, a stand-alone browser it released last fall, and roll its technology into a suite of tools in its desktop app.
OpenAI said earlier this year that it was developing a "superapp" for Macs and Windows, but did not mention at the time that Atlas would be rolled into that.
At the time of its release, Atlas seemed like a natural evolution of OpenAI's takeover of the world, bringing its popular chatbot ChatGPT to web browsers with the potential to turn web searches into conversational prompts. But OpenAI had stiff competition from other AI-enabled browsers, including Perplexity's Comet, Microsoft's Edge with Copilot and Brave, among others.
In its race to keep up with its biggest competitor, Anthropic, OpenAI appears to be narrowing its...
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