AP News: “OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, on Tuesday, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in more internet traffic and the revenue made from digital advertising. It could also further cut off the lifeblood of online publishers if ChatGPT so effectively feeds people summarized information that they stop exploring the internet and clicking on traditional web links…OpenAI said Atlas launches Tuesday on Apple laptops and will later come to Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s iOS phone operating system and Google’s Android phone system..”

• Also via Platformer – “…Like Perplexity’s browser Comet, or the Browser Company’s competitor Dia, Atlas is built on Chromium — the open-source web browser developed by Google that also serves as the basis for Chrome. As such, Atlas will be immediately familiar to any user of Chrome: on setup, you can import your bookmarks and key settings directly from your old browser, and navigate the new browser almost exactly as you did the old one…”
• Altas is also available for Mac.
• See also Wired – OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Takes Direct Aim at Google Chrome. The new ChatGPT-powered web browser is OpenAI’s boldest play yet to reinvent how people use the web.