OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT
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OpenAI has discontinued its Atlas browser, launched in October 2025, integrating its features into an updated Chrome extension for ChatGPT.
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OpenAI has discontinued its Atlas browser, launched in October 2025, integrating its features into an updated Chrome extension for ChatGPT. This move reflects user feedback and aims to enhance convenience, although it may strengthen Google's competitive edge in browsing data collection.
Key Points
- Atlas browser was operational for less than eight months before its discontinuation.
- Features from Atlas are now available in a new ChatGPT Chrome extension.
- ChatGPT's new 'Computer Use' feature allows background task automation across apps.
- OpenAI's decision leaves it without a direct competitor to Chrome.
- Atlas users will receive notifications regarding the transition to the new system.
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~1 min readOpenAI is already killing its AI browser Atlas, launched just last October 2025. Its features are moving into an updated Chrome extension that lets 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.
— Originally published at the-decoder.com
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