A browser for ChatGPT: OpenAI releases Chrome competitor Atlas for macOS
If you use ChatGPT while surfing, you currently still have to switch between tabs and copy content. OpenAI says this will be a thing of the past with Atlas.
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OpenAI has released its own browser, Atlas, which directly integrates ChatGPT. In the software, currently only available for macOS, the AI chatbot can be contacted directly next to an open internet page. Upon request, it answers further questions about the content there, for example. In its presentation, the AI company points out that ChatGPT not only has access to the history of open internet pages but can also include other details about user behavior in its responses. The technology can be controlled with natural language and can also control the browser itself. As an example, OpenAI explains that ChatGPT can tidy up or close open tabs.
New movement in the browser market?
While the usability of ChatGPT in the browser is not new, but OpenAI points out that in Atlas, there is no longer any need to switch back and forth between tabs. Furthermore, content does not need to be copied and pasted into ChatGPT windows for the AI to interact with it and compare pages, for example. The AI has access to the open content and "understands the context". Users should also be able to control ChatGPT in Atlas in agent mode, meaning that it can take action and complete tasks upon request – for example, booking a trip. However, this is only possible for now if you pay for the AI chatbot as part of a paid subscription.
Anyone using ChatGPT in the Free, Plus, Pro, and Go versions and using macOS as their operating system can download the browser now at chatgpt.com/atlas. Versions for Windows, iOS, and Android are to follow, but the AI company does not provide a timeline for them. In the browser, you can set what it is allowed to save. The browser history can be deleted, and there is also an incognito mode, according to OpenAI. "By default, the content accessed is not used to train the models," adds the AI company. It calls the release another step towards "a super-assistant that understands its users' world and helps them achieve their goals."
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With the release of Atlas, OpenAI is now also entering into direct competition with Google in another area. The search engine giant owns Chrome, by far the most widely used browser, and for months it looked as though it would have to be relinquished for antitrust reasons. While this is spared for Google, but in recent months, a number of companies have identified AI integration in the browser as a way to potentially take market share away from Chrome. The promise is that users will be saved many clicks. However, the susceptibility to errors is problematic, as a current test by c't shows. Like so many other browsers, Atlas is based on Chromium, Google's browser engine.
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