By: Nick Gambino
OpenAI is coming for Google’s head. It’s been announced that the company behind ChatGPT is planning to release their own browser to contend with Chrome, Edge, etc., according to Reuters.
If the sources who spilled the beans to the outlet are correct, then we’ll see an OpenAI browser in just the next few weeks. Not surprisingly they’ll be using AI and their robust chatbot to create a whole new browsing experience.
Google themselves have folded AI into their search engine, dramatically improving the ability to research things. This is mainly thanks to the AI chatbot’s ability to collate search results into easily assimilable, bite-sized packages. They even introduced AI Mode recently for more heavy AI lifting.
OpenAI hopes to take this even further by fully dominating the web browsing experience, stretching far beyond simply offering search results.
“OpenAI’s browser is designed to keep some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites, two of the sources said,” the Reuters report reads.
If the company run by Sam Altman can figure out a way to move a good chunk of their more than 500 million active weekly users into their new browser, they could really give Google a run for their money.
The way they’ll achieve this is by making it feel like a seamless transition from ChatGPT to browser. In fact, if they can effectively make the browser inside the already existing ChatGPT interface, then they’ve got it made.
This move is all but necessary to OpenAI’s survival. Since they launched ChatGPT in 2022, all the majors have stepped up, creating their own AI chatbot. As mentioned, Google even integrated it into their search engine which is used by hundreds of millions of people a day, fielding 8.5 billion searches.
It’s going to take a lot to topple the Google giant and a ChatGPT browser may be their only chance.
