OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

AI and ML

Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity

OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex.

The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out the newly unveiled ChatGPT Work platform.

Atlas arrived last October with no shortage of ambition. Rather than trying to out-Chrome Chrome, OpenAI wanted to bolt ChatGPT directly onto the web, promising a browser that could read pages, rewrite them, answer questions, and eventually start doing the clicking itself.

However, within days of its debut, security researchers demonstrated prompt injection attacks that could manipulate the browser's AI assistant into following malicious instructions embedded in web pages. A few days later,researchers uncovered another flaw...

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