OpenAI has released its own browser, Atlas, which has directly integrated ChatGPT. In the software, which is initially only available for macOS, the AI chatbot can be contacted directly next to an open website. On request, he answers further questions about the content there, for example. The AI company points out that ChatGPT not only has access to the history of the opened websites, but can also include other details about usage behavior in answers. The technique can be controlled with natural language and can also control the browser itself. As an example, OpenAI states that ChatGPT can clean up or close the open tabs.
New movement in the browser market?
The usability of ChatGPT in the browser is not a novelty, but OpenAI points outthat Atlas no longer needs to switch back and forth between tabs. In addition, content does not have to be copied and pasted into ChatGPT windows so that the AI can 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, which means that it can take action and complete tasks on request – for example, book a trip. For the time being, however, this is only possible if you pay for the AI chatbot as part of a paid subscription.
If you use ChatGPT in the Free, Plus, Pro and Go versions and use macOS as the operating system, you can now download the browser at chatgpt.com/atlas download. Versions for Windows, iOS and Android are to follow, but the AI company does not give a timeline for this. In the browser, you should be able to set what it is allowed to save. The browser history can be deleted and, according to OpenAI, there is also an incognito mode. “By default, the accessed content is not used to train the models,” adds the AI company. It calls the publication another step towards “a super assistant that understands the world of its users and helps them achieve their goals”.
With the release of Atlas, OpenAI is now also in direct competition with Google in another area. With Chrome, the search engine company owns by far the most widely used browser and for months it looked as if it would have to be given up for antitrust reasons. Google is spared this, but in recent months, a number of companies have identified AI integration in the browser as a way to possibly take market share from Chrome. The promise is that many clicks will be taken from users. However, the susceptibility to errors is problematic, as a recent test by c’t shows. Atlas, like so many other browsers, is based on Chromium, Google’s browser engine.
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