OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT

OpenAI is killing its AI browser Atlas less than eight months after launch. Its features are moving into ChatGPT’s updated Chrome extension, which will let users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome’s sidebar.

The company says it’s folding in what it learned from Atlas and user feedback. Atlas users will get notified about the switch. Separately, the new desktop “Computer Use” feature lets ChatGPT handle tasks in the background. It can click, type, move files, and work across apps and browsers, either as a one-off action or a recurring task. When Atlas launched, it looked like a shot at Chrome. Now OpenAI is pulling the plug less than eight months later. That puts the browser on a growing list of scrapped or not very successful OpenAI products, alongside plugins, apps, the ChatGPT Agent, and the Sora video model. For users, bundling everything into ChatGPT might actually be more convenient. But it also means OpenAI has no way to pull users away from Chrome, giving Google a competitive edge thanks to all the browsing data it collects. Follow The Decoder for AI news, background stories and expert analyses.