OpenAI has launched its new Atlas web browser and with it "a step toward a future where most web use happens through agentic systems." The broad agentic capabilities of the new browser look as impressive as they do terrifying, including the ability to track and remember everything you do and carry out complex, multi-step tasks on your behalf. At launch, Atlas is only available for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android support "coming soon."
The basic idea for Atlas seems to be to embed all your browsing within ChatGPT, rather than add ChatGPT to a browser, thereby giving the chatbot almost limitless abilities in a browsing context.
