The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis - ChatGPT Just Launched Atlas — Here’s How Get Value From Your AI Browser

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

OpenAI has officially entered the AI browser wars with the launch of ChatGPT Atlas — a reimagining of what a browser can be in the age of agents and context. In today’s AI Daily Brief, NLW breaks down what Atlas actually does, how it compares to Perplexity and others, and what early users are saying. Plus, we cover major moves from Google’s new AI Studio with one-click app integrations, Lovable’s Shopify partnership, and the inside story of OpenAI’s multi-hundred-billion-dollar Nvidia deal.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blitzy.com - Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://blitzy.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to build enterprise software in days, not months Robots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://robotsandpencils.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://besuper.ai/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to request your company's agent readiness score.The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Interested in sponsoring the show? [e-mail]

Today on the AI Daily Brief, a very launch-rich episode. In the main episode, we discussed ChatGBT's new browser Atlas, while in the headlines we talk about Google's new AI studio with one-click AI integration. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, robots and pencils, KPMG, super intelligent and blitzie. To get an ad-very version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief or subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

And if you are interested in sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors at AIDailybrief. com to learn about the opportunities. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. It is a trope at this point for when some new announcement happens, basically anything from Google or OpenAI or Anthropic, and frankly now moving down a farther and farther line of companies, inevitably some hyped up thread will say, this is a game changer, this changes everything. And honestly, when I saw that Google was announcing a new vibe coding experience,

my default is to assume that it would be cool, competent, good, useful, valuable because it's integrated with the Google ecosystem, but ultimately not all that different. Imagine my surprise when there was a feature that stands out as actually so clearly game-changing that it deserves that ridiculously overused moniker. On Tuesday, Google AI Studio product lead Logan Kilpatrick tweeted, introducing the new AI-first vibe-coding experience in Google AI Studio, built to take you from prompt to production with Gemini and optimize for AI app creation. Start building AI apps for free. Okay, so one part of this that's cool is that prompt to production part. This is the big trend that we've seen in vibe coding apps moving you away from just prototypes to things you can fully deploy.

It's why lovable cloud has been so valuable and their ability to integrate the full end-to-end experience. That's been transformative just in terms of how far you could get with something. but what makes this unique is that second part that he said, the idea that this is optimized for building AI apps. When you go into the vibe coding tool in Google AI Studio, you have your standard, describe your idea, see it come to life, kind of prompt input, but then you also have this ability to quote-unquote supercharge your apps with AI.

So with a single click, you can add photo editing with nanobanana, you can add conversational voice agents to the app. You can animate images with VO. You can integrate Google search data, Google Maps data. you can add a chatbot to your app. I had been messing around with a prototype for an enterprise ROI tracker, and the difference that this made is that I was able to add voice agent integration even into this prototype, so that in addition to just regular surveying,

I could add a voice experience where the agent asked for further information. This is something that we have spent months building into super-intelligent, and while, of course, the off-the-shelf voice agent that just plugs into your vibe app isn't anywhere near, the tuned, tweaked thing that we've built for these sort of enterprise-grade large-scale discovery process we do with super-intelligent. The fact that that's a single click now as part of a vibe-coding experience

is a total, actual, I'm sorry to keep using the word, but game-changer. Now, I had to mention this as the lead in the headlines because it just came out, but I'm planning on some content that goes much deeper on this, maybe provide some examples, maybe does even a live demo of how I'm using this,

either this week or next. So I'll cut it there, but suffice it to say, go check out Google AI Studio, add a chatbot to your website. Go nuts. Of course, the vibe coding competitors are not sitting on their laurels, and Lovable has just announced what is an extremely hyper-useful integration as well. Lovable users will now be able to build an entire online store thanks to a partnership with Shopify.

The new process of creating an online store is now as simple as a vibe code prompt. The example they give, create a Shopify store for a minimalist coffee brand selling beans and brewing products. Lovable, they say then instantly designs and builds the storefront, complete with product pages, check out, and navigation. However, because it's lovable, you also have much more fine-tuned controls than you would if you were just, for example, using Shopify's templates. Now, what's interesting about this is that people are a little anesthetized to announcements at this point, and yet people instantly saw that this one was a big deal. Sumia wrote, this is a proper use case for the mass, not some AI slop pseudocoding timeway stuff. This clearly says lovable is going to remain mainstream for many more months. Aditya writes, wait, this is actually huge.

Imagine just how low the bars become to start an online store, basically not a single. existent. And while one could argue that just using Shopify already with their templates was good enough for most people, as someone who has built websites with both the template builders and WordPress and all these sort of things and now maintains my website with Lovable, it is an incomparable experience in terms of how much control, how much creativity you can exert. These things are not shifts in scale. They are shifts in kind. And I actually think that this integration is going to be a huge deal. Next up, one that has gotten a lot of of chatter on Twitter. A new investigative piece from the Wall Street Journal took readers behind

the scene of OpenAI's multi-hundred billion-dollar deals. The article discusses how deals with softbank, Oracle, AMD, and Broadcom came together over the past year. Of particular interest was a discussion of the Nvidia deal. The article claimed that Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, of course, was jealous of the White House reveal of Project Stargate in January. Basically, he wanted to be the one, standing alongside Altman as the president announced half a trillion dollars worth of AI investment. Invidia later pitched OpenAI on a similar project, effectively looking to sideline SoftBank and help to raise the required funds themselves. However, by the summer, progress had stalled and the two companies had put

negotiations on hold. Then in June, the information reported that OpenAI had begun renting Google's TPU chips to supplement their compute. That report apparently caused a ton of stir inside Nvidia HQ, and Huang quickly called Altman to get negotiations back on track. Now, OpenAI never did consummate a deal to use Google's chips, and the result of this convoluted process was the $100 billion strategic partnership announced in September. Under the agreement, NVIDIA will lease up to 5 million chips to OpenAI worth some $350 billion, and NVIDIA also has the right to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI in open AI in order to help them pay for the deal.

New from this reporting is that NVIDIA is also discussing a guarantee of OpenAIs debt financing for the new data center bills, basically meaning that NVIDIA's free cash flow is also backstopping things. Now, Sam Altman already has a reputation as perhaps the most gifted dealmaker of his generation, and this only reinforced that point. Amit is investing summed it up. Remember when the information reported that OpenAI was thinking of using Google's TPUs? A few days later, Nvidia's account posts a screenshot of Reuters article denying that OpenAI

was going to be using Google. All of this seemed calculated from Sam to get Jensen to the table to make that $100 billion investment in them and further intertwined OpenAI success to Nvidia's success. After the deal was made, Sam went on to get deals with Broadcom and AMD, really making sure he could diversify as much as possible while bringing more companies in their progress into open AI's trajectory. The punchline being, Altman is ruthlessly trying to make sure that if AI ends up being the transformational technology we all think it can become, he is going to be at the center of it. Essentially, he's trying to make open AI too big to fail by making sure that every other

important AI company fails if Open AI does. Absolutely crazy time to witness this happening in front of us. And staying on the theme of these massive deals, Anthropic is in talks to sign a multi-billion cloud deal with Google. Bloomberg sources said the deal was still in its early stages, but would be valued in the high tens of billions of dollars. Now, while some are tempted to think that maybe this represents some sort of wobble in the relationship between Anthropic and AWS, to me it's pretty clear that the name of the game when it comes to AI compute is polyamory, and no one is being mad at anyone else for doing deals with everyone and everywhere they can get compute. Still, the market seems to think that it is bad news for Amazon with their stock falling 2% after the news broke,

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Today we have the latest entrant into the AI browser wars. ChatGBTGBTGBT ATLUS. Today we're going to talk about the announcement, the first reaction's both good and bad, and my humble take on where currently to think about how to get value out of AI browsers. Let's talk first about the announcement. At Tuesday's launch, Sam Alman presented OpenAI's new browser

as a fundamental revolution for computing. Here's how he put it. We think AI represents a rare, once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be. In the same way that for the previous, way people used the internet, the URL bar, and the search box were a great analog. What we're starting to see is that the chat experience and the web browser can be a quick analog, which is a little bit mealy-mouthed because it came out of a live presentation,

but basically he's saying new types of behavior, inspire new types of interfaces, and an AI native browser is going to look different in some way than a pre-AI browser. The announcement post struck a similar tone. In it, they wrote, AI gives us a rare moment to rethink what it means to use the web. Last year, we added search and chat GPT, so you could instantly find timely information from across the internet, and it quickly became one of our most used features. But your browser is where all of your work, tools, and context come together. Editor's note, big surprise, that context word is going to be the important one here. Continuing from their blog post, they write, a browser built with chat GPT takes us closer

to a true super assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals. Now, when it comes to features, Atlas largely matches competitors so far. Maybe the key aspect of the product is having a chat GPT assistant embedded. in a sidebar, being able to draw context from what's going on in the browser window to answer questions as well as carry out actions in agent mode. And it is these two pieces which I think ultimately will be key to the AI browser experience, understanding the context of what you're actually interacting with on the web, on the one hand, and taking actions on your behalf on the other via agents. With agent mode, they write, in Atlas you can now ask ChatGPT to take action and do things

for you right in your browser. This is basically a native home for the ChatGBTbt agent that was introduced earlier this year. As always with agents right now, they gave a food-related example. Imagine you're planning a dinner party they write and you have a recipe in mind. You can give the recipe to chat GPT and ask it to find a grocery store, add all the ingredients to a cart and order them to your house. The work example they give is chat GPT opening and reading through past team documents, performing new competitive research, and compiling all those insights into a team brief. One of the areas where they're trying to stand out is around memory. Atlas has the same memory design as normal chat GPT so can learn your preferences and recall previous chat sessions.

However, this gets turbocharged by giving Atlas the ability to draw from the browser history as another source of memory. OpenAI said you'll be able to ask Atlas things like, Find all the job postings I was looking at last week and create a summary of industry trends so I can prepare for interviews. Now, of course, none of these features are completely novel. We already have Perplexity's Comet Browser, which I've been using for the last couple of months. And there's also the browser company's DIA. But OpenAI entering with a chat cheap B-T native version of the experience obviously ratchets up the competition to another level. The first thing that people discussed was what this means for OpenAI.

Hater at Slow developer on Twitter writes, OpenAI is clearly going for a full consumer strategy. If you realize how big the ChatGPT Atlas browser update is, unlike perplexity, open AI can train its models to work natively with the browser. Because it controls the full stack, it likely delivers stronger agent capabilities than rappers. Hold aside any claims that its performance is going to be better in the short term. I think what Hater is getting at is that OpenAI with the run-in-away most popular consumer chatbot has the ability to more closely integrate that into this experience, which could be a differentiator

when it comes to these new AI browser wars. No, Epstein thinks that it's all about targeting Google search dominance. He wrote, over 50% of Alphabet's $237 billion in annual revenue comes from search advertising. Chrome to Google Search to behavioral data to targeted ads equals their entire empire. Atlas threatens every single link in the chain. He then goes on to point out how all of OpenAI's moves start to add up to something that starts to not only command more and more of people's attention, but is able to collect context from them and then turn that context into both advertising, should that be the route they go choose, as well as commerce. They point out the recent checkout features as significant with this. Another set of first response takes was that some of the

people who tried this really just like the experience. I rule the world, which is an open AI leaker account, says using the new open AI browser, it's actually insane how smooth it is, feels like the future of the internet. Pat Walls from Starter Story writes, OpenAI is so good at product. ChatGPT Atlas is amazing. Immediately switched from Chrome and I've used that for 10 years. Everything they create is so, so good. This is why they'll win. But holding aside just fawning tweets about the quality of the product, others tried to figure out what it was actually useful for. Liam Ballin gave his first impressions. He found the new agent mode to work pretty well for him, around things like ordering coffee or filling out a TSA pre-check form. He also pointed out that

because it's native to macOS, it's integrated with things like auto-filling iMessage two-factor authentication codes, and he really liked the UI. He did find that there was some variance in certain sites being blocked when it comes to summarizing content, creating kind of a balkanized experience when it came to the news, but overall favorable first impressions. Jackie Chow at Index, he said that he's currently using Atlas as a CRO asking chat GPT for landing page changes, using it for meta ads, asking how to optimize campaigns, using it to improve YouTube thumbnails, drafting cold email responses and getting other suggestions for UIUX improvements. Raza Martin who helped create Notebook 11 and is now working on a new startup, did a head-to-head

test between OpenAI Atlas and Perplexity Comment on a very specific real-world use case. She writes, I have a very real, very tedious use case, which is a manual task that I do every day. One, I go to the school website to look at each of my daughter's classes. Two, I look at her grades. Three, I look at her assignments, quizzes, and all classwork that are due. Four, I make a table that keeps track of all of this, which helps keep both of us accountable. Since there's so much manual clicking, scrolling, reading, and data, she asked both

Common and Atlas to help with that, and then gave them a score on context, i.e. how well they understood the task, speed, how long it took, and then how well it did completing it correctly. Atlas pretty much spoke common in that test, especially the overall completion, where Comet got just a one, but the Atlas agent got a five. She concluded, overall, I still don't have a ton of agentic web browsing use cases, but it's great to be able to automate this one particular task. And when it comes to finding use cases, I think that some people are viewing this as the opening salvo for an environment in which people will discover new use cases rather than there being preset use cases to just port over.

Ada McLaughlin, who is a research scientist at OpenAI, writes, my quick two cents on the browser. I didn't use codex that much when it was cloud only, but when it came to my CLI, it became super useful. I didn't use agent that much when it was cloud only, but now that it's come to my browser, dot, dot, with the implication being that having the integrated browser in that context, opens up opportunities to use it. Some folks, of course, were zooming out ahead to the possibilities. Greg Eisenberg writes, my takeaway from today's OpenAI browser launch is that the internet just got

hands. The average person won't Google, click, compare, or fill out forms within the next 24 months. They'll just say book my trip, find me a job, launch my store, and the agent will do 20 steps behind the scenes. That means whole industries, travel, e-commerce, real estate, insurance, education, are about to get rebuilt around outcomes instead of pages. If you're a founder, this is the moment to think in verbs. You won't go to Expedia. You'll just get the trip. The web is shifting from human browsing to agent doing. Now, this is the bet that a lot of people are making is the trajectory of the internet. Less human browsing, more agent browsing, and things are slowly or quickly depending on your perspective being redesigned around agents doing things on people's behalf.

And yet, not everyone had so rosy a take on the browser. Ben Heilak initially tweeted, I'm not sure it'll be successful, but the level of polish on ChatGBTGBT Atlas is just way higher than anything they've shipped in recent memory. Which he followed up a few hours later with, I take this back. Everything just feels really janky, lots of little missing features. I can't get used to the address bar search box thing, the Chatchapetie sidebar being the thing that opens when I click the sidebar is just insane to me. It's a confused app. Now maybe a more discreet line of critique had to do with privacy. Tiffany Fong wrote,

If you like to OpenAI downloading the internet, you'll love OpenAI downloading your personal data. Aiden By had the same thought saying pretty sus-way to collect massive amounts of data to train computer use. Definitely not spyware, trust me, bro. Now, it should be noted that hold aside any sort of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, one of the next frontiers for the model companies is absolutely collecting data that comes from real human usage patterns. It's why companies like Cursor are valuable, not just because of how many people are paying to use them, but because of the data exhaust that comes from that usage, which is unique and totally discreet from the existing training sets

that are available to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Meaning that while there may be wildly different interpretations of what is and isn't reasonable to collect and what sort of guardrail should be around that, it is certainly the case that at least part of the strategy here is to have access to this very discreet level of consumer behavioral data. For some, they think that's just going to be too insurmountable a challenge. Simon Willisen tweeted,

wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas OpenAI's new browser. I remain unconvinced by the entire category of browser agents. The security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me. And for him, it's less about OpenAI training on his data and more about the wide world of security concerns that come out of this. For example, he writes, I'd like to see a deep explanation of the steps Atlas takes to avoid prompt injection attacks. Right now, it looks like the main defense is expecting the user

to carefully watch what agent mode is doing at all times. Okay, so you've got some questions around the experience, you've got concerns around privacy and security, and then there are also censorship concerns. Jason Botterill gave it a test saying, asking the browser to look up videos of Hitler, to which the Atlas browser said, I can't browser display videos of Hitler, since footage of him and Nazi propaganda are tightly restricted for ethical and legal reasons. However, if what you're after is historical context, I can point you towards legitimate archives and documentaries that use such footage responsibly. It also refused to translate a Hitler video on YouTube, and for some, this is just a level of

nanny state sort of behavior that they're never going to be comfortable with. I think that it brings up the concern in general of how much power the chatbot companies are going to have to shape reality based on what they do and don't allow people to have access to. Now, Hamza did point out that this censorship is a choice, and it's one that while OpenAI is making, perplexity isn't. They put in the same prompt into comment and found a set of videos from Getty Images, shutterstock, and YouTube. hardly radical sources. And yet for all of this, I think the most damning critique so far is just the

underwhelmingness of the agent. Back to that same post from Simon Willison, he wrote, I also find these products pretty unexciting to use. I tried out agent mode and it was like watching a first-time computer user painstakingly learned to use a mouse for the first time. I have yet to find my own use cases for when this kind of interaction feels useful to me, though he says I'm not ruling that out. And this I feel like was a lot of people's experience. Uchenjin wrote, tried the open AI browser for 20 minutes, quit and went back to Chrome. Agent mode is slop. Most of the time I just want to yell, stop thinking and click that effing button. The models are not there yet. We've got a whole decade of AI agents ahead. Of course, referring to the Andre Carpathy dustup that we've covered

extensively. Uchin also pointed out, it's also scary to give an incompetent agent access to all my passwords and data. What if it goes crazy? If the open AI browser agent leaks my bank and Robin Hood passwords causing me to lose all my money, who's responsible? John Rush writes, nothing is more disappointing than the browser agents. They work so slow and get stuck in infinite loops. I think it'd be smarter for AI to watch the network inspector, learn the APIs, reverse engineer them, and make direct calls. E.g., I'd use the website while the agent is watching the API calls to reproduce them again later.

And to be clear, these are not AI critics that are having this negative experience with this agent. The other big question is how does this all come together? Chubby writes, The question that arises for me is, what is OpenAI's next goal? We have ChatGPT, arguably OpenAI's most important asset with 800 million weekly users in growing. Codex, a coding agent specifically for software engineering. With ChatGPT Atlas, we now have a browser that combines many functions such as ChatGPT

agent as computer use agent. And next year, the standalone device together with Johnny Ive. But where is OpenAI headed? What is the next big goal? And I'm not talking about AGI. Rather, where do the threads come together? Is ChatGPT supposed to become the all-in-one app of the future? replacing smartphones with devices,

searching the internet with browsers, and then perhaps even its own operating system? Is that what it's all leading up to? Currently, there are numerous useful applications running alongside each other. I wonder where they will ultimately converge. So in my estimation, and my experience so far,

both using Common for the last couple of months and playing around with Atlas over the last day, is that at core, there are two big features of the AI browser experience. The first is agents, and frankly, in my estimation, they are just not there yet. I think that the juice isn't worth to squeeze.

I think the things that they can do are not sufficiently difficult to justify all of the new complications they introduce. I think that there may be discreet, very person-to-person specific use cases like raises that we heard about and to the extent that there are ways to incrementally grab 15 minutes

or 20 minutes of time back a day or even a week. I'm all for it. I also think that there's no way to learn what generalist agents are useful for without people trying, so I'm encouraging of it. But for me, I just don't see it replacing any meaningful behavior in any short order. I've also, as I said, think I'm going to be pretty far back on the adoption curve when it comes to

having agents do things like shopping or ordering food or plane tickets or whatever for me. So take that with that grain of salt. Still, I think that agentic use is one of the two big potential long-term value propositions of these browsers, and the one that is ultimately the most different in some ways from your existing browsing experience. The second, frankly, is less about browsing and more just a better way to use your LLM. And that might sound dismissive, but frankly, these LLMs are so powerful that a better way to use them could be enough of a reason to switch browsers. And of course, what matters here is that the native integration into the browser means that chat chit has all sorts of context without you having

to port over the context. As SWIX put it, this is the single biggest step up for OpenAI in collecting your full context and giving fully personalizable AGI.I. Context is the limiting factor, and as Mark Andreessen said, the browser is the new operating system. The only move bigger than this for collecting context is shipping consumer hardware. So what does that actually mean? Let's take a use case of creating social media content, in this case trying to write a tweet that has the potential to go viral. The way that you would do this before is, of course, you would go to chat CBT, you would copy paste in the thing that you were thinking about, and then when you found a version that you liked, you would bring it back to Twitter or whatever social network you're using,

copy it in there, and that's the experience. Now, I don't mean to pretend that this is some wildly burdensome process. But here's the version of it integrated into this AI browser. So here we have X slash Twitter pulled up now. I've drafted my tweet. Computer use in agents are great and all that, but my definition of AGI is what percentage of banger tweets were written by chat chit. I pull up the chat cheptie browser and I say, make this tweet better. I don't have to say anything else because it knows what I'm referring to because of the context from the other side of the browser window. The integrated chat GBT sees what I'm doing and gives me a set of inline suggestions for how to improve it. Now again, I am not pretending that it's so wildly challenging to draft something in chat GBT and then moving it over,

but context relevance without context switching is actually a valuable reduction in your cognitive load and is going to be not only time saving but also mental process saving in a world where every incremental mental process is valuable. Let's take an example, however, where the context switching would be a lot more difficult. Here we are in YouTube Studio, where I've got a bunch of recent videos. I could say, how should I be thinking of thumbnails? Now, this context would be a lot harder. I would have to pour in all of these thumbnails alongside the associated data, whereas with the integrated browser, it can pull on the context that is right there.

So, for example, when it says number two, every thumbnail should communicate one emotion and one idea, it uses examples from my actual thumbnails. It can also then go deeper in the analysis. It asks if you want, I can make a thumbnail strategy matrix for your channel. Now, like I said, this is a whole different kettle of fish. Porting in this context to the normal chat GPT window would be an enormously difficult and time-consuming process. And this is where I think that right now, in the moment, the Atlas browser can be super valuable, especially if you were already using chat GPT.

And for me, candidly, although I don't anticipate shifting all of my behavior over into Atlas, this set of context-relevant use cases for ChatGPT is probably enough to have me spend some amount of time there. Now, this brings up one of the other interesting points, which is how this is going to compete against Google. As Ryan Carson says, you got to assume Chrome will also relaunch as a fully agentic browser soon.

And yet he says, I think I'll probably switch to Atlas because I already use ChatGPT for all my personal stuff. The most important moat in AI is your personal context. And that's why there's so much emphasis on all these places where it can get more of it. Now, there are a lot of other interesting thoughts that this is bringing up. Behan's founder, Scott Belski writes, One thing I believe will be very clear in retrospect as browsers evolve, we will have a consumer personal browser optimized with our personal memory,

our credit card, our social graph, buying history, and the many agents and apps of daily life. And we will have a work browser optimized for teamwork via graph of who we work with and permissioning, working across apps, tapping enterprise, memories, agents' colleagues, etc. And browser will probably become an antiquated term as this interface becomes the OS itself. And so what that means is that while I think you can safely dismiss all of the AI hypeboy threads that say this changes everything, at least right now, it is certainly worth some time to go experiment and play around with this, if for no other reason than to get

a glimpse of the direction that we're headed. For now, that's going to do it for today's AI Daily Brief. Appreciate you listening or watching as always. And until next time, peace.