{"id":97781,"date":"2025-10-22T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:46:17","slug":"chatgpt-atlas-the-battle-for-the-future-of-the-internet-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97781\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Atlas: The battle for the future of the internet is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The tug-of-war over the internet\u2019s future escalated dramatically on Tuesday after OpenAI unveiled a new product that takes direct aim at the heart of Google\u2019s core business: controlling the world\u2019s front door to the internet.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI this week released ChatGPT Atlas, a desktop web browser infused with the popular AI chatbot. The product is more than just a way to expand ChatGPT, which now has more than 800 million weekly users. It\u2019s an attempt to become the pathway to websites, social media and other online services, giving it a more direct role in everything people do online. Google has dominated that business for two decades. OpenAI is betting it can start to take over.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Atlas isn\u2019t the first and only AI-driven web browser; AI search company Perplexity launched its Comet browser in July. Yet ChatGPT\u2019s massive reach makes it the most formidable threat to Google, marking a turning point in the transition away from lists of blue links.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cYour browser is where all of your work, tools, and context come together,\u201d OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a blog post announcing Atlas. \u201cA browser built with ChatGPT takes us closer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Google\u2019s search engine \u2013 which is at the core of its Chrome browser \u2013 isn\u2019t going away anytime soon. But there\u2019s some data to suggest consumers are indeed embracing AI for some of the tasks they may have previously relied on search links for. A study from Pew Research<\/a> found that people are less likely to click on links when AI-generated summaries are displayed in Google. And Apple\u2019s senior vice president of services said earlier this year in court testimony, per Bloomberg<\/a>, that search queries on its devices declined for the first time in April.\n <\/p>\n

\n The launch of Atlas, and whether it\u2019s successful, will test whether consumers are truly ready to make a more dramatic shift to AI for their daily needs.\n <\/p>\n

\n For Google\u2019s web browser and search engine, the move toward AI and away from links has been gradually built over the course of a decade. OpenAI\u2019s Atlas, however, puts ChatGPT at the center of the browsing experience right from the jump.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s ChatGPT\u2019s search bar, not Google\u2019s, that greets you upon opening the browser, along with suggestions for topics to research or tasks for ChatGPT\u2019s AI agents to handle, like planning a weekend trip. A button at the top of the page pulls up ChatGPT in a sidebar, where users can ask questions or have it summarize the page. (I asked ChatGPT, for example, to explain the difference between \u201cearnings\u201d and \u201cadjusted earnings\u201d just by highlighting the text in an article and typing \u2018what\u2019s this?\u2019).\n <\/p>\n

\n Then there\u2019s ChatGPT\u2019s agent mode, which can handle tasks on your behalf. When I asked it to find a bar in New York City\u2019s Long Island City neighborhood with cheap drinks near the 7 subway and to book a table for three people, ChatGPT suggested a cocktail bar with happy hour deals located right near the train\u2019s Queensboro Plaza stop. It also asked what time I\u2019d like to book the reservation for.\n <\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

\n To be sure, Google is taking a very similar direction with its own browser, which accounts for a staggering nearly 72% of web traffic according to analytics platform Statcounter Global Stats<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Google search results have AI summaries at the top, the Gemini digital assistant can summarize web pages and answer questions in Chrome. The company also offers a prototype web agent <\/a>that can handle certain tasks like hiring a Task Rabbit to build furniture or booking a hotel based on information from a user\u2019s email and calendar.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Atlas\u2019 launch comes at a time when industry analysts are raising questions about Google\u2019s role in the future of the web, a key theme that came up in the Justice Department\u2019s landmark search monopoly antitrust case against the company.\n <\/p>\n

\n The role AI plays in the future of how people search online was a big factor in Judge Amit Mehta\u2019s decision, which allowed Google to keep Chrome rather than offloading it.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThese remedies proceedings thus have been as much about promoting competition among (general search engines) as ensuring that Google\u2019s dominance in search does not carry over into the GenAI space. Many of Plaintiffs\u2019 proposed remedies are crafted with that latter objective in mind,\u201d the court filing from September read.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI\u2019s browser is only a day old, and there\u2019s no telling whether it will resonate with consumers as broadly as ChatGPT. But it further underscores OpenAI\u2019s ambition to play a fundamental role<\/a> in how people use technology, starting with ChatGPT, search and now now web browsers \u2013 eventually expanding into consumer hardware<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n If that sounds familiar, it\u2019s a page straight from Google\u2019s book.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tug-of-war over the internet\u2019s future escalated dramatically on Tuesday after OpenAI unveiled a new product that takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,206,60,80],"class_list":["post-97781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ie","tag-internet","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}