OpenAI introduced Atlas, a macOS web browser that bakes ChatGPT directly into your browsing experience. It features an AI Agent Mode for hands-off tasks (like searching, browsing, and even booking travel), a sidebar chatbot for instant page summaries, and context-aware actions on highlighted text. Privacy controls let you choose which sites the AI can analyze. Windows, iOS, and Android versions are planned.
What is Atlas?
Atlas is OpenAI’s new AI-powered browser designed to change how people explore and act on information online. Instead of juggling tabs and copy-pasting, you get a built-in ChatGPT sidebar that reads pages and helps you process content on the spot—on macOS to start.
Key Features
- Built-in ChatGPT sidebar: Summarize pages, extract key points, compare sources, or draft replies without leaving the tab.
- AI Agent Mode (autonomous under your control): Ask ChatGPT to browse sites, search the web, and complete tasks end-to-end—like finding flights and finishing checkout steps you approve.
- Context-aware actions on selected text: Highlight any passage to see smart, relevant actions—a faster, more helpful alternative to the usual right-click menu.
- User-controlled privacy: You decide which sites the AI may analyze and which are off-limits.
Availability and Plans
- Now available on macOS.
- Agent Mode is currently for paid ChatGPT subscribers (Plus, Pro, Business). OpenAI plans to expand access later.
- Windows, iOS, and Android versions are in the works; no release timeline shared yet.
Why it matters
Atlas turns the browser into a do-things interface, not just a place to read. With ChatGPT embedded and an agent that can follow your instructions, everyday workflows—research, shopping, trip planning—become faster and less manual while keeping granular control over what the AI can see.
