Sam Altman, Will Ellsworth, Adam Fry, Ben Goodger, Ryan O’Rouke, Justin Rushing, and Pranav Vishnu introduce ChatGPT Atlas — our new browser. Now available globally on macOS. Windows, iOS, and Android are coming soon.
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“Chat! Press F12 for me → find every part of this terrible UI that wastes half the width of my viewport, and kill every instance of border-radius > 0” and buttons that hide until hovered…
Atlas, now available globally, can be accessed through Apple’s macOS, with support for Windows, iOS, and Android coming soon. The announcement comes several months after rumors in July that OpenAI would release a web browser that would challenge the dominance of Google’s Chrome.
Kinda weird it’s MacOS before Windoze with the Microsoft partnership…
Starting with the Lynx browser in a terminal myself, it’s kinda wild these days. I remember trying to explain to a girlfriend about forward and backward in the text browser. Those were the days.
I kinda agree with @EricGT that this might be headed toward a full OS of some sort eventually. But yeah, better to get it out to their huge userbase with a simpler version to start likely. It’ll be interesting to see if they’re able to capture any marketshare. I don’t even know the recent numbers.
Of course, I thought of privacy too… what are the terms to use the browser, etc.
Sam looked super-tired during the livestream. Gotta be insane running this company!
It doesn’t look like Chromium, it looks like they built it from scratch. I had to build an entire web-browser backend for my Sora app. It would be faster and way easier to build then actually forking Chromium.
I’m super excited to try out Atlas, though guess I’ll have to wait for Windows or iOS. Initial feedback from the livestream demo:
Agent in Atlas looks amazing and powerful. Since it can complete tasks in a tab while I work in another tab, it would be really helpful if it gave a clear signal when it finishes — for example, a short “ding” sound (like a kitchen timer) and/or a brief visual flash on the tab. Thanks!
Hey, @DavidPI, welcome to the dev community! I agree it’s kinda odd… maybe a smaller userbase to deal with at first? I dunno.
Hope you stick around. We’ve got a great bunch of people here and a wealth of information. Glad you stopped by!
Welcome, @lays.09-sung, to the dev community. I’ve heard devs do lurk and sometimes post here. We’ve been trying to get Sam Altman here for a very long time now! Haha.
Seriously, though, it does look slick. I’m anxious to give it a spin too, but alas, I am a Windows man ever since corporate stopped paying for new Macs every year.
Glad you stopped by. Hope you stick around. We’ve got a great group of people, and a lot of gems here in threads if you poke around. Again, welcome!
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