OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser, sending Alphabet stock down 3%

Shares of Alphabet dropped by 3% on Tuesday after OpenAI announced what looks like a full-on web browser built on ￰0￱ teaser, a five-second clip posted on X, showed just three tabs: “Livestream,” “Today,” and “10 a. m. PT.” That’s all it ￰1￱ hours before the livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted separately, saying the company was launching a product he’s “quite excited about!” The YouTube livestream was titled “Introducing ChatGPT Atlas” and included a short description that confirmed it: this was OpenAI’s new browser. It’s now available for macOS users globally, with support for Windows, iOS, and Android “coming soon,” according to the ￰2￱ is a full browser product, and it comes just as competitors are racing to push similar AI-based tools into the hands of ￰3￱ browser competes directly with Google and Perplexity This wasn’t OpenAI’s first move in the browser ￰4￱ January, the company introduced Operator, an AI agent that used a browser to carry out ￰5￱ Operator wasn’t a full browser on its own, it just operated inside ￰6￱ new product changes that ￰7￱ ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI officially becomes a browser company ￰8￱ puts it on a collision course with both Google and Perplexity AI, which have been fighting to win user attention and market ￰9￱ in October, Perplexity rolled out Comet, an AI-powered browser available worldwide for ￰10￱ works like an assistant; searching the internet, organizing tabs, writing emails, shopping, and ￰11￱ the tasks people usually spread across apps can now happen in a single AI-driven ￰12￱ it doesn’t stop there.

Google, under pressure since ChatGPT’s original launch in late 2022, added its Gemini model to Chrome in ￰13￱ allows users to ask questions about pages, manage tabs more easily, or handle multitasking inside one ￰14￱ for a YouTube clip? Schedule a call? Translate something? Gemini now handles that.

Still, the reaction to OpenAI’s new browser hit Google ￰15￱ Pichai reacts to OpenAI moves, admits timing hurt Google During a panel chat with Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s Dreamforce event last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked how he felt when OpenAI released ChatGPT before Google could get its own tool ￰16￱ described Google as the “absolute leader in AI” and called OpenAI “this little company in San Francisco.” Sundar responded, “But you’re right, credit to OpenAI, they put it out first.” He added that Google had been working on a chatbot internally, but didn’t release it at the time because it wasn’t ready for public use. “We hadn’t quite gotten it to a level where you could put it out and people would’ve been OK with Google putting out that ￰17￱ still had a lot of issues at that time.” Sundar said that Google already had serious investments in AI infrastructure, its own chips, and research teams, and that they were well prepared when ChatGPT ￰18￱ the timing was off.

“For me, when ChatGPT launched, contrary to what people outside felt, I was excited because I knew the window had shifted,” he ￰19￱ also admitted that Google didn’t react right away because it had a higher “reputational risk” than OpenAI. Still, the internal response was anything but ￰20￱ New York Times reported that Google issued a “code red” and moved fast to catch ￰21￱ departments were redirected to work on AI, and it wasn’t until March 2023 that Google finally launched its own ￰22￱ tool first came out as Bard, but was later renamed ￰23￱ entire timeline matters now more than ￰24￱ up to Bybit and start trading with $30,050 in welcome gifts