I really wish they'd put the fact that the user is using ChatGPT Atlas in the User-Agent string or Sec-Ch-Ua header so that administrators can filter this browser accordingly.
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#42So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
If the DeepSeek approach to training hyperscaler models "cheaply" after all the hype wears down works, we just need to follow in their footsteps and build open source alternatives to everything.
Frontier models take a lot of money and experimentation. But then people figure out how to train them and knowledge of those models and approaches leaks. Furthermore, we can make informed guesses. But best of all, we can exfiltrate the model's output and distill the model.
If we work together as an industry to open source everything, we can overcome this.
OpenAI has to 100x in five years or they're going to be in trouble.
Models are making it easy to replace SaaS, but also easy to replace other AI companies.
There may be no moat for any of this. The lead is only because they're a few generations ahead, running as fast as they can on the treadmill.
I don't think this hurts China at all.
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#43Another cohort of startups blown out of the water. "But where's the moat, but where's the moat", cries the armchair engineer with a PhD in React. Meanwhile OpenAI goes brr ...
if I was Google I'd close up Chromium at this point
and that would kill these AI company browsers instantly
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#44So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
I've found my browser works fine without LLMs.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
That shouldn't be downvoted. Their pivot from model -> product company is one to watch with admiration and dread in equal measure.
It's being downvoted due to the nonconstructive shitpost tone.
I thought personal attacks were not allowed in here.
But I think you'll get a free pass.
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#46This will totally change the traditional browsing experience and is reminiscent to what Google did with Chrome. Really impressive
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#47Anyone feel like OpenAI is acting like Google lately? They announce a lot of products/features and then kill them when they realize people don't use them[0]. They also announce products way before they're ready for launch, just like google[1]. - GPT Plugins? (HN went crazy over this, they called it the "app store moment"...) - GPTs?! - Schedules? - Operator? - The original "codex" model? [0]: I know, the diff is that…
I've been using Schedules a little bit, but yeah fair.
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#48Anyone feel like OpenAI is acting like Google lately? They announce a lot of products/features and then kill them when they realize people don't use them[0]. They also announce products way before they're ready for launch, just like google[1]. - GPT Plugins? (HN went crazy over this, they called it the "app store moment"...) - GPTs?! - Schedules? - Operator? - The original "codex" model? [0]: I know, the diff is that…
This is exactly the right move to find out what products people find useful on top of their AI infrastructure.
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#49How does this page not immediately address what I assume is everyone's first question? Is this browser built on Chromium, or is it a completely fresh creation? I have to assume that because they AREN'T highlighting it that it IS built on Chromium.
99.9% is based on Chromium. Would have taken ages to ship otherwise. It's great to see how much Chromium has lowered the bar for people to be able to ship new browsers.
They used Claude code to write it.
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#50So openAI's answer to Perplexity's Comet. I'm afraid this will be the future, as these AI-browsers do truly bring value. But they open up the gate for a single Big Tech Winner that truly knows everything about you, and can even control everything on your behalf. I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approac…
>I really hope open-source Browsers like Firefox follow up soon with better alternatives, like on-device LLMs to counteract the "all in the cloud" LLM approach.
That's the first thing that came to mind. Every single action across every single website would be available to OpenAI with this browser. Even if I wanted to leverage something like this it'd have to be a fully local LLM interacting with a huge local DB of my info.