CHATGPT’S owners have revealed another potentially disruptive AI tool to take on Google – a web browser.
OpenAI says its rival app has their leading-star ChatGPT front and centre to “remembers what matters” with “memories” of what you get up to.
Called ChatGPT Atlas, the software is out today starting with Mac – before rolling out to Windows, iOS, and Android “soon”, boss Sam Altman announced.
“The way that we hope people will use the internet in the future… the chat experience in a web browser can be a great analog,” he during a live stream.
In a demo, the firm showed how a button within the browser summons ChatGPT instantly to ask questions about the page you’re currently on.
It can remember details from your browsing to resurface pages, do tasks automatically or continue with past work.
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The company says users are in control of what Atlas can access and remember, meaning they’ll have to opt into browser memories if they wish to use it.
And it insists content you look at in the browse isn’t used to train the OpenAI’s AI models unless you choose to enable it.
When you need to continue a task you want to resume, you can ask in the chat anything like “re-open shoes I looked at yesterday” and Atlas will sort it for you.
There is an “agent mode” but that is only available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers for now.
“This is just a great browser all-around – it’s smooth, it’s quick, it’s really nice to use,” Altman added.
Atlas also has incognito mode, logged-out mode when using agent, parental controls, as well as “granular controls” for what sites ChatGPT can see or remember.
Google Chrome is currently the world’s most popular web browser with an estimated 3.45billion users.
“This is just the start. We’ll be shipping new features and improvements frequently,” OpenAI said.
