Big Threat to Sundar Pichai’s Google Chrome by ChatGPT makers, OpenAI launches new browser named as…, Sam Altman calls it…

OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled its own web browser, Atlas, its ChatGPT creator’s direct entry to compete with Google. By putting ChatGPT as a gateway to web searches, OpenAI wants to attract greater internet traffic and tap into the digital advertising market. The move may also generate concerns among online publishers, as ChatGPT’s ability to deliver AI-generated summaries may discourage users from visiting traditional websites and clicking through links.

OpenAI Launches Atlas Browser

OpenAI has said ChatGPT already has more than 800 million users but many of them get it for free. The company also sells paid subscriptions but is losing more money than it makes and has been looking for ways to turn a profit.

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.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it a “rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about and how to use one.”

OpenAI’s Browser VS Google’s Chrome 

OpenAI’s browser will face a challenge against Chrome, which has about 3 billion worldwide users and has been adding some AI features from Google’s Gemini technology.

Chrome’s success could provide a blueprint for OpenAI as it enters the browser market. When Google released Chrome in 2008, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was so dominant that few observers believed a new browser could give a big threat.

But Chrome quickly won over legions of admirers by loading webpages more quickly than Internet Explorer while offering other advantages that enabled it to upend the market. Microsoft ended up abandoning Explorer and introducing its Edge browser, which operates similarly to Chrome and holds a distant third place in market share behind Apple’s Safari.

Perplexity, another smaller AI startup, rolled out its own Comet browser earlier this year. It also expressed interest in buying Chrome and eventually submitted an unsolicited USD 34.5 billion offer for the browser that hit a dead end when Mehta decided against a Google breakup.

Altman said he expects a chatbot interface to replace a traditional browser’s URL bar as the centre of how he hopes people will use the internet in the future.

“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then,” he said on a video presentation aired on Tuesday.

(With Inputs From AP) 

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