New information tends to confirm that Optai would actively develop its own web browser, based on Chromium, with the ambition to redefine our way of surfing the Internet. And it may well be landing on MacOS first.
The battle of tech giants is about to know a new round. After jostling the world with Chatgpt, it is Google Chrome’s turn to be in the OpenAi viewfinder and the company does not seek to develop a simple clone with an integrated chatbot. Openai sees much larger and would seek to create a deeply intelligent navigation experience, where the browser becomes a real proactive assistant.
While rumors have been circulating for a few weeks, new information evokes the presence of features such as intelligent tab management, a new reinvented tab page and an autonomous navigation mode. The real revolution would come from this new function which would give the browser the ability to do the research, compile information and present the result. A bit like Copilot mode in Microsoft Edge, but probably going much further.
Chatgpt “fashion agent” as a foundation
To understand the ambition of Openai, you have to look at the side of an already existing functionality in Chatgpt: the famous “fashion agent”. This powerful tool is not just a simple cat interface. Behind the scenes, it uses a Linux terminal and a version of chromium to perform complex tasks in the cloud.
This is what allows him to respond to requests like “Create me a PowerPoint presentation using my documents and sources on the Internet”. This agent is already very effective and is the technological basis of this future browser. We therefore do not start from a white sheet, far from it.
The goal: to keep you at the heart of AI
So why embark on the navigators’ war, a market ultra-dominated by Google? The idea, as already pointed out Reuters Last July, is to keep you in the Openai ecosystem. Rather than clicking in connection, the user would interact directly with the AI of the browser to obtain what he is looking for. This novelty would give even more weight to the father of Chatgpt, whose mobile application has taken ahead of the competition in terms of download.
It is a frontal attack against the Google model, which is based on conventional web navigation. If the final appearance will undoubtedly look like that of Chrome, after all, it is a browser that would be based on chromium, its internal functioning promises to be radically different. The war of navigators, which has passed in the background since the ultra-domination of Google, is indeed relaunched as evidenced by the official launch of Comet by Perplexity and rumors around Chrome. In addition to the interest of Perplexity, who would be ready to put 34.5 billion on the table to buy the browser, Openai did not close the door to any takeover. “If Chrome is really for sale, we should take a look”Sam Altman told Sam Altman The Verge.
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