AI browsers are heating up. With Perplexity’s Comet and other players like Arc baking assistants directly into the browsing flow — and Google integrating Gemini into Chrome — browsing the web is beginning to look a lot different than it did even a few months ago. In fact, it seems to be becoming the next major AI battleground.
Now, OpenAI has entered the fray with its own contender: ChatGPT Atlas.
Atlas is a brand-new browser built entirely around ChatGPT, and it’s available starting today for macOS users (with Windows and mobile coming soon). But this isn’t just ChatGPT slapped on top of Chrome. It’s a full rethink of how we browse, research, plan, shop and get things done — with an AI assistant embedded into every tab, task and decision. You can opt in or out at any time, depending on