What is ChatGPT Atlas: A review
What is ChatGPT Atlas?
An article created, written, researched and edited by Joseph Cannariato.
Part One: The reflection
In early 2023 ChatGPT became available to the public and everyone went crazy. Programs such as “Dall-E” formed which were used for AI image and video generation. At the beginning, no one thought AI would take over. In our own newspaper’s archives I have written many articles around that time criticizing ChatGPT for having poor image generation and mediocre text generation. Now, I realize my mistake. ChatGPT has become so powerful the organization is worth 500 Billion dollars. ChatGPT has created Sora, an AI video and image generation program sending “Dall-E” out of business and well, it’s really really good. This is just one of the programs created by OpenAI within 2024-2025 but that’s not what we are here to talk about, we are here to talk about “Atlas” the newly released ChatGPT Browser and Search Engine. Sora has caused chaos on the internet from TikTok’s to Reels, to any video on the internet, half the videos you see that look crazy real are AI generated and you would never know it if there wasn’t that little “Sora” watermark. Programs such as Magiceraser.org have shot up in users because they can remove Sora watermarks. OpenAI has been making crazy moves and I’m here for it!
Part Two: The Browser
I have been using ChatGPT for a long time and am a long time subscriber of ChatGPT Plus. This allowed me to do 2 things with this browser: Get browser access super early and get ChatGPT “Agent” access which by itself is worth the subscription. The browser is partially based on Chromimum a very monopolized browser which is practically what most browsers are based on. There are few exceptions such as “Safari” and “Firefox” which have been around for a while but nothing compares to chromium. Some of my long-time favorite browsers such as “Arc” and the newly released “Dia” from the Browser Company (which has made hundreds of millions of dollars was recently sold to a larger un-named corporation in China for $618 million). ChatGPT Atlas is very useful for many tasks, in a new update within the past week the ability to put a website into the prompt such as booking.com will allow ChatGPT to search that website specifically. A prompt such as “booking.com search this website for flights to St.Barths on November 5th one way, and book them for me, economy.” Would be perfect. The Browser lacks one feature that other chromium based browsers have and it is pretty simple to enable. That feature is Tab Groups. Tab Groups are a great way to organize your tabs into compressed groups that you can open at any time. The ChatGPT Agent mode is currently only available to “Plus” and “Pro” subscribers but it will soon expand to free subscribers, (it may not and there may become a worse verison available to free members, it’s kinda up in the air right now).
Part Three: The Ai Browser Uprising
This Browser is one of many to come along during this time. In the past Month(s) we have seen the huge influence that Co-Pilot now has on Microsoft Edge, the biggest competitor against ChatGPT’s Atlas, Perplexity’s comet has come out and it has similar but nowhere similar features to ChatGPT Atlas. Perplexity offered around $34.5 Billion, and yet they were only worth around $18 Billion (some sources indicate a worth closer to $20 billion). This shows that companies are willing to go into major debt to grab Chrome. The U.S justice department recently declared Google’s monopoly on the Internet unlawful and they said that a major factor was the ownership of Chrome. Chrome has currently not sold at this time and is awaiting a buyer. So the AI uprising started. Since Chrome’s downfall is inevitable, AI companies such as OpenAI (Which itself is worth around 300 Billion dollars, and its owner has notoriously not taken any ownership or salary) Perplexity, The Browser Company, and there are talks that Claude is working on a browser.
The Verdict:
My overall opinion is that this is one of the best technological advancements in AI in the past 20 years. The concept of a browser that can do things for you while you work is almost dystopian yet we are living in reality. Just like when Jobs released the iPhone in 2007, people were skeptical, now over 59% of users in the U.S have iPhones, and around 30% in the world. I think that the time of AI browsers is coming, and we're living in it. Honestly, for these little facts in this article, like the net worth of Sam Altman, I have had the little ChatGPT side window on the side for just giving feedback and fact-checking my own facts. I think that the Study mode in ChatGPT is amazing, it competes with very expensive Ai’s like Khanmigo by Khan Academy, and it does it all for free, it is something so incredible for us. I think this generation will have the best possible tools available to them and because of this, everyone has those tools.
