OpenAI Atlas 浏览器未迎来周岁生日
英文标题:🔶 OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday
OpenAI 决定终止上线不足一年的 AI 浏览器实验 ChatGPT Atlas,其代理能力将整合进 ChatGPT 和 Codex。Atlas 去年推出后曾暴露出提示注入等安全缺陷,促使公司将重点转向全新 ChatGPT Work 平台,该平台集成聊天、编码与浏览,主打办公生产力。对开发者而言,Codex 不再独立,而是融入 ChatGPT Work,获得内联差异编辑、PR 审查等能力。此举表明 OpenAI 放弃了独立浏览器路线,转而将代理能力深度嵌入工作流。
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人工智能与机器学习
OpenAI Atlas 浏览器未迎来周岁生日
独立实验上线不满12个月即被终止,模型制造商将代理野心转向工作场所生产力。
OpenAI 已决定其 AI 浏览器实验已经完成使命,在推出不到一年后即终止 ChatGPT Atlas,并将其浏览器代理功能转移到 ChatGPT 和 Codex 中。
该公司表示,Atlas 将于8月9日停止工作,同时推出全新发布的 ChatGPT Work 平台。
Atlas 于去年10月首次亮相,野心勃勃。OpenAI 并非想打造比 Chrome 更优秀的 Chrome,而是想将 ChatGPT 直接嵌到网页上,承诺提供一个可以阅读页面、重写内容、回答问题,并最终自行点击操作的浏览器。
然而,在初次亮相后的几天内,安全研究人员演示了提示注入攻击,能够操控浏览器的 AI 助手,使其遵循嵌入网页中的恶意指令。几天后,研究人员还发现了另一个漏洞,允许畸形的 URL 导致 Atlas 暴露之前访问过的网站信息。这两个漏洞尽管不致命,却迅速暴露了发布首日的 AI 浏览器与适合开放互联网的浏览器之间的差距。
OpenAI 并没有完全放弃 AI 驱动浏览的理念,但似乎认为不需要通过一个独立的浏览器来实现。
ChatGPT Work 给人的感觉不太像浏览器,更像是 OpenAI 试图成为办公操作系统。这款桌面应用将 ChatGPT、Codex 和 Atlas 整合为一个单一软件包,可以连接文件和业务应用、浏览网页、生成文档、电子表格、演示文稿和网站,并能连续数小时处理长期项目,而非逐条回答提示。
驱动这一切的是 GPT-5.6,OpenAI 最新的模型系列,公司称其在推理多步骤任务以及按照用户模板和参考资料产出工作成果方面更加出色。
这次的说法也不一样了。Atlas 的核心理念是重新思考浏览器,而 ChatGPT Work 则是让办公人员花更多时间与 OpenAI 在一起。为此,OpenAI 将插件打包到一个统一目录中,让 ChatGPT 可以从 Slack、Microsoft Teams、Google Drive、SharePoint、电子邮件、日历、CRM 及项目跟踪器等工具中自动提取上下文,或在用户在提示中显式调用它们时获取。
对开发者而言,最大的变化是 Codex 不再被视为独立产品。Codex 将失去独立应用,转而融入 ChatGPT Work,并获得了内联差异编辑、拉取请求审查以及多仓库支持等能力。
ChatGPT Work 已在桌面端向所有套餐用户开放,并将在未来几天内陆续在网页端和移动端向 Plus、Pro、Business、Enterprise 和 Edu 用户推出。
过去一年,AI 浏览器可谓炒作不断,但要说服人们将 Chrome 换成 AI 优先的替代品,一直比在网页上再挂一个聊天机器人要难得多。®
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AI and ML
OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday
Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity
OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex.
The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out the newly unveiled ChatGPT Work platform.
Atlas arrived last October with no shortage of ambition. Rather than trying to out-Chrome Chrome, OpenAI wanted to bolt ChatGPT directly onto the web, promising a browser that could read pages, rewrite them, answer questions, and eventually start doing the clicking itself.
However, within days of its debut, security researchers demonstrated prompt injection attacks that could manipulate the browser's AI assistant into following malicious instructions embedded in web pages. A few days later, researchers uncovered another flaw that allowed malformed URLs to cause Atlas to expose information about previously visited sites. Neither flaw proved fatal, but they quickly exposed the gap between an AI browser on launch day and one ready for the open web.
OpenAI hasn't fully abandoned the idea of AI-powered browsing, but appears to have decided it doesn't need a standalone browser to deliver it.
ChatGPT Work looks less like a browser and more like OpenAI's attempt to become the operating system for office work. The desktop application combines ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas into a single package that can connect to files and business applications, browse the web, generate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and websites, and stick with long-running projects for hours at a time instead of answering one prompt after another.
Powering it all is GPT-5.6, OpenAI's latest model series, which the company says is better at reasoning through multi-step tasks and producing work that follows users' templates and reference material.
The pitch is different this time around too. Atlas was all about rethinking the browser, but ChatGPT Work is about getting office workers to spend more time with OpenAI. To help with that, OpenAI has bundled plugins into a single directory, allowing ChatGPT to pull context from tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, email, calendars, CRMs, and project trackers, either automatically or when users explicitly call them into a prompt.
For developers, the biggest change is that Codex is no longer treated as a separate product. Codex is losing its standalone app and moving into ChatGPT Work, picking up inline diff editing, pull request reviews, and multi-repository support.
ChatGPT Work is available to all plans on desktop, rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu on web and mobile over the next few days.
AI browsers have attracted no shortage of hype over the past year, but convincing people to swap Chrome for an AI-first alternative was always going to be a taller order than bolting another chatbot onto the web. ®