For those of you that like to mess around with AI (I don't) this short blurb comes from Johanna Stern at WSJ.
"While I write this, an AI agent is working in another browser tab, furiously trying to find me walnuts in their shells. You’d think they’d be everywhere in Northern California—land of farmers’ markets and fancy trail mix—but nope. More on why I launched this emergency nut hunt next week.
On Tuesday, OpenAI released Atlas, its new AI-powered web browser that integrates ChatGPT. Built on Chromium—the same underlying tech as Google Chrome—Atlas lets you chat directly with ChatGPT inside the browser. It can summarize the page you’re on, explain a concept or, if you have a paid plan, use its agent tools, where it goes off and does things for you on the web.
From OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet to The Browser Company’s Dia and Microsoft’s Copilot-powered Edge, the space is already getting crowded. My colleague Nicole Nguyen wrote about the growing competition this week. Read her column here.
Perplexity’s Comet browser was a game changer during my book reporting. I still use Microsoft Edge as my main browser, but launch Comet for specific tasks. Here are three things I regularly use it for:
