OpenAI 关停 Atlas 浏览器，但 AI 浏览野心仍在扩张

OpenAI 正在关停 Atlas，这是一款以 ChatGPT 为核心的 AI 浏览器，于去年 10 月推出。但该公司并未放弃 AI 应帮助人们浏览网页的想法。相反，它把在 Atlas 中测试的一些代理浏览功能，重新分配到了 ChatGPT 的桌面应用和一款 Google Chrome 扩展中。

关停 Atlas 的举动发生在 OpenAI 应用 CEO Fidji Simo 要求团队削减“支线任务” 几个月之后，那次要求已经导致该 AI 公司关停了其 AI 视频生成工具 Sora。

过去一年的大部分时间里，AI 行业一直陷入一场推翻 Chrome 的战争，争夺人们上网时间最长的入口。Perplexity 推出了 Comet，The Browser Company 推出了 Dia，Google 和 Microsoft 也分别为 Chrome 和 Edge 更新了 AI 功能。

经过几个月的实验，OpenAI 似乎得出结论：浏览器是一个功能，而不是目的地。因此，它正将 Atlas 类似浏览器的代理能力折叠进人们已有的工作场所——其中就包括 Chrome。

OpenAI 正在 Chrome 上推出一个 ChatGPT 扩展，该扩展可以获取用户正在浏览页面的上下文，让用户直接在浏览器中询问网页相关问题、总结内容或启动更长的任务。这直接与 Google 的 Gemini 侧边面板竞争，后者执行多项类似任务。

OpenAI 还在增强其 ChatGPT 桌面应用，内置一个更强大的浏览器，让用户可以在不离开 ChatGPT 的情况下浏览网站、登录账户、下载文件并与网页交互。一个单独的云浏览器在 OpenAI 的服务器上远程运行，应用中的代理可以代表用户在此完成任务。

综合来看，这些更新将 ChatGPT 转变为一个跨越 Chrome、桌面应用和 AI 代理的连续工作空间。

OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a Google Chrome extension.

The move to shut down Atlas comes a few months after OpenAI’s CEO of applications Fidji Simo told the team to cut back on “side quests,” which led to the AI firm shutting down its AI video-generation tool Sora.

For much of the past year, the AI industry had been engaged in a war to unseat Chrome as the place where people spend most of their time online. Perplexity launched Comet, The Browser Company launched Dia, and Google and Microsoft have updated Chrome and Edge, respectively, with new AI-powered features.

After a few months of experimenting, OpenAI appears to have concluded that the browser is a feature, not the destination. So it’s folding Atlas’ browser-like agent capabilities into the places people already work — and that includes Chrome.

OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT extension on Chrome that gives it access to the context of the page you’re viewing, lets users ask questions about web pages, summarize content, or start longer tasks all from the browser. It’s a direct competitor to Google’s Gemini Side Panel, which performs several of the same tasks.

OpenAI is also boosting its ChatGPT desktop app by featuring a more robust browser that allows users to browse websites, log into accounts, download files, and interact with web pages without leaving ChatGPT. A separate cloud browser runs remotely on OpenAI’s servers as a place where the app’s agents can complete tasks on a user’s behalf.

Together, the updates turn ChatGPT into a continuous workspace that spans Chrome, the desktop app, and an AI agent.