ChatGPT Atlas explodes onto the scene! OpenAI launches heavyweight AI browser, ushering in the era of AI for internet access.

Leader in AI applications, OpenAI, has released its first "AI web browser" fully driven by artificial intelligence technology, marking a significant milestone in the internet era. This new product, which is also the entry point for users to experience the internet, signifies the inseparable integration of browsers with AI. The deep integration of browsers and AI is set to become the core direction of browser technology updates. This move puts the developer of ChatGPT, valued at $500 billion, in direct competition with Alphabet Inc. Class C, the leader in the AI and search engine field. Named ChatGPT Atlas, this AI browser aims to provide a more personalized internet experience and can handle tasks such as booking flights and editing documents on behalf of users. When users visit a website using the browser, they will see an option to "Ask ChatGPT," which, when clicked, opens a sidebar for deep and synchronized AI interaction with the page content. For example, users can open a long movie review and have ChatGPT summarize it, or find a recipe and have ChatGPT help order the necessary ingredients online based on personal taste. "This is a fully AI-driven web browser built around ChatGPT," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a live event on Tuesday. He emphasized that AI represents a rare and significant technological opportunity that can make people rethink how browsers are used. The company announced that ChatGPT Atlas will initially launch on macOS globally and has plans to quickly expand to Windows, iOS, and Android systems. More advanced and complex AI intelligence features are currently only available to paid ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT Pro users. In the "AI intelligence mode," ChatGPT can perform complex operations on behalf of users, such as opening the Python platform for deep programming work, opening windows for simulations and simulations, and conducting proxy operations. During the live event, the leader of ChatGPT Atlas stated that the browser has completely changed how people work in the internet era and now believes the emergence of ChatGPT is a similar human technological revolution. OpenAI has joined the ranks of AI startups reimagining web browsers with AI. This new browser product is a significant milestone of the internet era that can be traced back to the 1990s. Another major competitor of Alphabet Inc. Class C in the search engine field, the AI startup Perplexity AI Inc., recently launched Comet, an AI web browser aimed at serving as a digital private assistant to automate tedious tasks for users. Additionally, Opera and The Browser Company are also planning to integrate more powerful AI features into their respective browsers. Alphabet Inc. Class C feels the pressure from OpenAI once again Following the announcement of OpenAI's AI web browser, Alphabet Inc. Class C's stock price fell by as much as 4.8% during Tuesday's trading hours. In September, Alphabet Inc. Class C introduced its Gemini AI model into its Chrome search browser. In addition to regular search tasks, Alphabet Inc. Class C's AI can respond to any request, provide deep explanations of visited web pages, summarize information between multiple tabs, and quickly retrieve previously closed websites. Alphabet Inc. Class C made this move just two weeks after a U.S. judge ruled against a government proposal to force the company to divest its Chrome browser. During a court hearing, executives from Perplexity and OpenAI stated that if Alphabet Inc. Class C were required to divest, they would be interested in acquiring the Chrome browser business. There are reports that the AI startup Anthropic, known as the "nemesis of OpenAI," is in negotiations with Alphabet Inc. Class C for a potential multi-billion dollar cloud service agreement. This potential transaction would provide Anthropic's Claude with large-scale computing capabilities. This deal will undoubtedly strengthen the long-term partnership between Alphabet Inc. Class C and Anthropic, as Alphabet Inc. Class C has already invested about $3 billion in Anthropic and provided traditional cloud computing and cloud-based AI computing resources. Anthropic's main investors also include Amazon.com, Inc., which provides cloud computing resources to the AI startup. Browsers transitioning from the internet era to the AI era OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Atlas successfully integrates the "Ask ChatGPT" sidebar and proxy actions (booking flights, editing documents, completing multi-step tasks) directly into the browser. It has been globally launched on macOS and plans to expand to Windows, iOS, and Android, marking the transition of browsers from the internet era to the "AI-native era." In the "AI-native era," AI applications are no longer plugins or malicious add-ons but default sidebars accompanying every web page and user action, allowing users to make the browser "understand and act." This is a leap from an "information window" to an "action workstation." Not only is OpenAI embedding generative AI applications and AI intelligences into browsers, but Alphabet Inc. Class C is also focusing on integrating the Gemini AI model system deeply into the Chrome browser platform, such as in-page explanation, cross-tab extraction, page summarization on Android, and more. Several AI startups focusing on "AI+search" (like Perplexity, Opera, etc.) are also continually updating and iterating, trying to turn web browsers into personalized AI assistants/agents. The emergence of Atlas undoubtedly makes this trend of AI browsers more mainstream and systematic.