After artificial intelligence firm Perplexity announced its AI browser Comet, now OpenAI has also thrown its hat in the browser ring, with its own AI browser, called Atlas . These pose a direct challenge to the most popular browser in the world currently, Google’s Chrome – a signal that the generative AI war is now being fought on multiple fronts.
ChatGPT Atlas does not immediately include a traditional address bar that is a key feature in search, with founder Sam Altman saying it was “built around ChatGPT”. The browser comes as OpenAI looks to monetise its huge investments in AI, and utilise its large user base. At OpenAI’s DevDay event earlier this month, Altman announced that ChatGPT had reached 800 million weekly active users.
ChatGPT Atlas also includes an agent mode that conduc