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OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser Is Shutting Down

chatgpt atlas browserOpenAI says it is shuttering its ChatGPT Atlas browser. When it was released last October, the company said the agentic browser was designed around the question "What if you could chat with your web browser?" The query was at least novel, but the answer was apparently not all that compelling.

As part of a slew of ChatGPT Work-related announcements on Thursday, OpenAI confirmed plans to "sunset" Atlas, with deprecation scheduled for August 9.

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Top Rated Comments

EM2013 Avatar
4 weeks ago
Hopefully the first domino that falls for the ai collapse :)
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
4 weeks ago
Who could have seen this coming?
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iMac The Knife Avatar
4 weeks ago
"What if you could chat with your web browser?" My answer to this question would be, even if I could, I wouldn't.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Pangalactic Avatar
4 weeks ago
Absolutely a good call.

Say what you want, but moving away from Sora and Atlas into Codex and improving ChatGPT was a very smart business decision. Sometimes things just don’t work and you have to drop them.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
4 weeks ago
That didn't last long.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
deaglecat Avatar
4 weeks ago
OpenAI is increasingly looking like the weakest of the AI giants.

No longer Apple's main partner (Google has that honor), SORA gone, OpenAI likely delayed IPO (Space X beat them to it), ChatGPT falling behind Claude, Gemini has a route to market with Google's installed base.

Honestly, if the AI bubble bursts, it wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI and their $300b deal with ORACLE are the fracture point.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)