{"id":237070,"date":"2025-10-24T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:06:12","slug":"what-openai-didnt-tell-users-openly-about-its-chatgpt-atlas-browser-it-is-built-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237070\/","title":{"rendered":"What OpenAI didn&#8217;t tell users openly about its ChatGPT Atlas browser: It is built on &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-and-his-team-announcing-the-chatgpt-atlas.jpg\" alt=\"What OpenAI didn't tell users openly about its ChatGPT Atlas browser: It is built on ...\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> launched ChatGPT Atlas earlier this week, marketing it as &#8220;a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core&#8221; that reimagines internet navigation through artificial intelligence. However, the company did not clearly mention a crucial detail during its livestream announcement: Atlas runs on Chromium, the same open-source foundation powering Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and numerous competitors.This basic fact about the ChatGPT ATlas browser is there on support page buried on OpenAI&#8217;s website, which states: &#8220;Atlas is OpenAI&#8217;s Mac browser built on Chromium.&#8221; Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong independently confirmed the Chromium architecture by identifying remnants of the framework in Atlas&#8217;s code, despite OpenAI&#8217;s efforts to reportedly restrict access to internal pages.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s Master Plan for India<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT Atlas is yet another entrant in crowded Chromium market<\/p>\n<p>CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sam-altman\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a> pitched Atlas as ending <a href=\"https:\/\/gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com\/brands\/Google\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> Chrome&#8217;s 17-year monopoly during the announcement, claiming &#8220;we haven&#8217;t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.&#8221; The irony isn&#8217;t lost on observers: OpenAI&#8217;s supposedly revolutionary browser relies fundamentally on technology developed and maintained by Google.The browser does offer distinctive AI-powered features, including integrated ChatGPT sidebars, context-aware right-click menus, and &#8220;browser memories&#8221; that let users request actions like &#8220;re-open the shoes I looked at yesterday.&#8221; An Agent Mode allows ChatGPT to complete tasks like booking reservations or editing documents, though it&#8217;s currently limited to Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers<\/p>\n<p>Familiar engine powers &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; browser<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT Atlas joins Perplexity&#8217;s Comet and Google&#8217;s Gemini-integrated Chrome in an increasingly crowded field of AI-enhanced browsers\u2014all built on the same Chromium base. Users have already discovered they can install standard Chrome extensions, further confirming the familiar architecture beneath Atlas&#8217;s AI veneer.Rather than challenging Chrome&#8217;s dominance with fundamentally different technology, OpenAI has simply added another AI layer to the existing ecosystem Google created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas earlier this week, marketing it as &#8220;a new web browser built with ChatGPT at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,112029,49,48,110090,10420,112031,192,22364,112030,278,6592,2747,61],"class_list":["post-237070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-browser-innovation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chatgpt-atlas","tag-chrome","tag-chromium","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-openai","tag-perplexity","tag-sam-altman","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}