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OpenAI Launched its ChatGPT Atlas Browser. Is this the End of Google Chrome?

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Episode description

OpenAI's has a new browser. Atlas combines Google Chrome’s interface with ChatGPT's intelligence, and we discuss key features like browser memory and Agent Mode, allowing personalized experiences and task automation. 

Stick around for our live demo of Atlas's capabilities while debating its practicality for users. The conversation highlights Atlas's potential role in reshaping digital interactions, so let us know what you think!

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0:00 OpenAI's New Browser
1:25 Innovative Features of Atlas
2:47 Initial Reactions and Comparisons
3:42 Understanding Agent Mode
6:33 Voice Control and User Experience
8:28 Optimistic Outlook on AI Browsing
10:33 Live Demo of Atlas
14:03 Unique Use Cases for the New Browser
16:40 Exploring Search Capabilities
17:50 The Future of OpenAI's Browser
25:14 Conclusion and User Feedback

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Transcript

Intro / Opening

Josh: Openai has got a browser just like chrome just like safari just like complexity Josh: openai now officially has a web browser that you Josh: can use today the download is available ejaz and i we have been playing around Josh: with it for the last hour or two it just got announced and we have a lot of Josh: thoughts and takes on this browser what it means for ai if it actually is valuable Josh: and what it means for the grand plan of openai this very much feels like a stepping

Josh: stone in their attempt to gather more information, Josh: get more familiar with your habits, and then eventually roll out an operating Josh: system for you, for your human entire, your entire human experience.

Exciting Announcement: OpenAI's New Browser

Josh: So this is a really exciting announcement. Josh: It's cool to see OpenAI jump into the browser game. Josh: Ejaz, I know you were all over the live stream too. We just finished watching Josh: it. What were the first impressions? Walk us through exactly what they even announced today. Ejaaz: So OpenAI's new browser is called Atlas, and it's as if Google Chrome and ChatGPT had a baby. Ejaaz: And I mean it because ChatGPT is at the center of this entire new browser.

Ejaaz: It kind of looks like a browser. Ejaaz: You have familiar things like tabs, history. Ejaaz: You have a cursor that you can scroll. You can type in URLs. Ejaaz: But with some noticeable new features, Josh, you get browser memory. Ejaaz: So this is something that I'm super excited about. Ejaaz: In ChatGPT, something that makes it super special is that ChatGPT remembers Ejaaz: everything about me and it results in a really personalized AI experience.

Innovative Features of Atlas

Ejaaz: That now comes over to your browsing experience in this new browser. Ejaaz: It remembers everything. You can search for new specific things. Ejaaz: If you're like, hey, I read something in a blog post the other week, Ejaaz: but I can't remember, you can kind of like now search for it. Ejaaz: And this other really cool feature called Agent Mode, which is currently only Ejaaz: available to Pro and Plus users.

Ejaaz: But on this browser, you can now engage in OpenAI's agent to do things for you. Ejaaz: And if this sounds like something that's kind of familiar, it's because other Ejaaz: AI browsers have also pitched this kind of similar feature. Ejaaz: But I think it's quite unique in OpenAI sense because it gives you the ability Ejaaz: to kind of do other stuff and you can watch it do things for you. Ejaaz: It can book restaurants for you.

Ejaaz: It can book flights for you. It could research things for you. Ejaaz: It could write code for you. Some really cool things. Ejaaz: My initial take on this, Josh, which may be a little controversial, is Ejaaz: It seems like a really cool new browsing experience, but I don't know how much Ejaaz: it necessarily adds to my life. Ejaaz: I get that it basically moves you from just using the chat GPT terminal to bringing Ejaaz: chat GPT to everywhere you browse on the internet. I get that.

Ejaaz: But I don't know if it's noticeably different for me to kind of like jump all Ejaaz: in. Do you have any initial reactions? Josh: I think mine are probably similar to yours where we've seen AI browsers before.

Initial Reactions and Comparisons

Josh: And in fact i almost feel like this could have been Josh: an extension kind of like what anthropic did they just Josh: released a browser extension that lives as a companion i understand Josh: why they didn't but it feels like it is about that level of importance um it's Josh: cool in the sense that it's a companion i don't know how much i'll use it i Josh: love the chat gpt app and i'm very stuck in my ways on how i use my browsers

Josh: and and the way i use chrome and the way i use safari and i use a series of Josh: different browsers for different things. Josh: What I find interesting though is that Josh: There wasn't really anything new announced today. It's mostly just a wrapper Josh: of their existing technologies. Josh: So, Ijaz, you mentioned agent earlier as one of the key features.

Josh: Well, we made an episode about agent from ChatGPT, like what, Josh: Two or three months ago, like quite a while ago, where they had announced the agent feature. Josh: What they did here is they really just rolled up that agent feature and they Josh: placed it into a web interface.

Understanding Agent Mode

Josh: And then another thing is the improved search, where they swapped Josh: out the Google search bar for a chat gpt search bar and when Josh: you type things in it will search using chat gpt and that's Josh: kind of what a lot of users are doing already is Josh: they're treating chat gpt like google and they're getting these like Josh: enhanced augmented answers through the browser experience so the Josh: new thing for me as a user would be just

Josh: the fact that it's more embedded in everything so a common problem Josh: with the chat gpt application that sits on my desktop Josh: and my mobile app is that it doesn't have access to all the accounts Josh: that i'm logged into so i i need Josh: to like log into a lot of accounts it's kind of a pain with this browser Josh: feature it has access to everything and what Josh: i found interesting is there's actually two modes when you start to

Josh: spin up the browser and you use the agentic feature it'll ask you it'll say Josh: hey do you want to use with logged in accounts or without login accounts and Josh: part of that it actually offers a warning saying hey this agent is actually Josh: going to take actions on your behalf so be sure to monitor it if you give it Josh: access to all of your accounts because there is a small chance that it does Josh: something that you may not want it to do.

Josh: So it's very much this like early experimental software, but I do see it as the stepping stone. Josh: I mean, as we talk about this all the time where OpenAI wants the operating Josh: system for your life, they want to be the single AI subscription that powers Josh: everything from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep and thinking Josh: proactively while you are asleep.

Josh: And I think this is very much just another attempt to further embed themselves Josh: by getting into the browser experience and everything associated with that experience. Ejaaz: Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think I'm browsing through Fiji Simo, Ejaaz: the CEO of OpenAI Applications here, her announcement post about this. Ejaaz: And she goes over here, she goes, the apps SDK, which is something that OpenAI Ejaaz: released, I think, two weeks ago now.

Ejaaz: And the whole point of the apps SDK was to bring apps into the ChatGPT app that Ejaaz: you and I and 800 million other weekly active of users use every week into ChatGPT. Ejaaz: So it enriches that experience. Ejaaz: But the point she makes here is, but ChatGPT should also be able to help you where you already are. Ejaaz: And this kind of got me thinking about how I use other AI models. Ejaaz: So another AI model I use is Grok, right? The one from XAI, that Elon Musk's AI model.

Ejaaz: And I was talking to you about this before we started recording, Ejaaz: Josh. But one thing that I keep coming back to when it comes to using Grok is Ejaaz: it's because I'm browsing X and Twitter, Grok's already there. Ejaaz: So I can just press a button and get a summary of something or have something Ejaaz: explained to me that I don't quite understand that someone's talking about. Ejaaz: And I find that really addictive and useful to me. It improves my life.

Ejaaz: If I could do that with ChatGPT, which is opened on another account in another Ejaaz: tab, but requires more clicks for me to get there. Ejaaz: I need to copy and paste the tweet. I need to give it a bit of context.

Voice Control and User Experience

Ejaaz: That kind of annoys me, right? So I don't use it. Ejaaz: Now, I potentially might, right? I log into X, ChatGPT gets access to all my Ejaaz: X history, which is probably good and very bad, and is able to kind of build Ejaaz: up a persona around me. So it already knows what I'm going to ask. Ejaaz: Maybe it suggests things as I'm scrolling through X. Ejaaz: And that integrated experience is really useful for me.

Ejaaz: But on the other side, I don't know whether this is good enough for me to kind Ejaaz: of use a completely new browser, right? Ejaaz: You mentioned that you could import all your bookmarks and log into all your different accounts. Ejaaz: Yeah, that's cool. But I don't know if that's good enough for me to stop using Chrome entirely. Josh: Yeah, there was a series of interesting things in this post from Fiji. Josh: Fiji, CEO of product, not to be confused with CEO of the actual company.

Josh: And there's a few things. One of the things in your key capability section was Josh: voice control, voice controlling your tabs. I think this is particularly interesting. Josh: One of my obsessions is how you engage with AI.

Josh: And being able to actually engage with the browser using voice is something Josh: that I believe is novel and very interesting to me, where if I can just converse Josh: with my browser, if I could say, hey, Josh: open up this tab, find a post like this, and I could see it kind of visually doing that for me. Josh: I think that's an interesting unlock that I'm excited to play around with. Josh: And the other, she had a large section in here all about memory.

Josh: And the memory thing I find interesting because this feels like the largest Josh: value prop for the user, but also for OpenAI and understanding the user more. And Josh: One of the first bullet points here, it says, Chachi Bati can remember your Josh: browsing patterns, preferences, and context.

Josh: For example, gluten-free recipes. If you are resistant to gluten, Josh: it will search specifically for recipes that have no gluten just because it Josh: understands that memory preference stack. Josh: So that seems like an interesting part of it where, okay, you can talk to it with your voice now. Josh: It remembers more and has more context of the actual browser functionality.

Optimistic Outlook on AI Browsing

Josh: Um seems kind of interesting Josh: um but again to your point you just i'm kind of trying to Josh: i'm trying to convince myself give myself reasons why i would be excited to Josh: use this and voice is one um because i do love constantly when i use chat gpt Josh: my most frequent way of interfacing with it is with voice but is that enough Josh: i don't know i'm trying to find the killer use case that killer feature and Josh: i'm just falling short when i think about it

Ejaaz: Okay so So I want to spin my most optimistic take on this new browser, Ejaaz: Josh, and it is as follows. Ejaaz: It's something you mentioned right at the start, which is, I think if we view Ejaaz: this as an intermediary step towards what is ultimately going to be a brand Ejaaz: new operating system for this AI technology, Ejaaz: I think that's an optimistic outlook and this makes sense, right?

Ejaaz: Why does it make sense? Well, I think in a world where AI and AGI is used in Ejaaz: everything that I do, it needs to be incredibly personal. Ejaaz: So it needs to know everything about me. Ejaaz: And it needs to know everything about you, Josh. And the difference between Ejaaz: you and me will be vast and different and similar in many different ways. Ejaaz: But it needs to be able to distinguish between that.

Ejaaz: I think a browser is a great step to do that. I kind of view my browser as my Ejaaz: homepage, my welcome page to the internet. the doormat, if you like. Ejaaz: I like that when I type in a URL on Google Chrome, it already knows which website Ejaaz: I'm trying to go to, which tab I already have opened, and it just takes me there directly.

Ejaaz: But I feel like a next leap in that is an AI that's reading my mind that maybe Ejaaz: does some work for me, or that maybe preempts a bunch of things. Ejaaz: Maybe it books the restaurant that it knows I need to go to in two weeks' time Ejaaz: without me needing to kind of open up a tab and do it for myself.

Ejaaz: So um what this end goal eventually Ejaaz: ends up being is this new operating system with whatever form factor uh we end Ejaaz: up using whether it's ai glasses that we've mentioned a lot on uh the show before Ejaaz: or whether it's a brand new one that open ai is cooking behind the scenes i Ejaaz: don't know i don't think we're quite there but i think this is an intermediary Ejaaz: step before that and therefore it's worth a.

Live Demo of Atlas

Josh: Shot so like we mentioned earlier in the episode this actually is available Josh: for download right now it's for mac only but we both Josh: downloaded it ejaz and i and we've been playing around with it in fact Josh: we want to give a demo right now so ejaz you have the browser open Josh: on the screen show us how it works what the one thing that Josh: i'm i'm kind of taken back by a first impression when i open this browser is

Josh: how similar it looks to other browsers this really doesn't look any different Josh: from a chrome a safari any popular browser that you're used to i guess that's Josh: probably because we've been trained to use it but show us some of the cool new Josh: features maybe the agent feature and how we use that cool well Ejaaz: Yeah there's a bit of a magic wand that you can wave here which is this agent mode. Josh: Button right over here.

Ejaaz: And you might notice that there is a new cursor that has appeared that is asking Ejaaz: me, what should we do today? Ejaaz: And this is basically OpenAI's agent that can do a bunch of things autonomously Ejaaz: for you as you browse or you can watch it, right? Ejaaz: So I have a specific prompt that I want to demo here, which is I'm asking it Ejaaz: to find the Limitless podcast on YouTube, subscribe to the channel,

Ejaaz: and leave a comment about how great they are under their most recent episode. Excellent. Ejaaz: A little generic, but, you know, I have to give it a go. And I'm going to click Ejaaz: the button here to set the prompt. Ejaaz: And my initial reaction is, oh, this is just ChatGPT, right? Ejaaz: Like there's nothing new here. And then suddenly this new window appears before Ejaaz: me and it is my YouTube channel and it is sparkly and I can see a cursor moving, but it's not me, Josh.

Ejaaz: I'm not moving this at all. And what I'm realizing is this is ChatGPT's agent Ejaaz: doing exactly what we requested of it autonomously in front of us. This is just so cool.

Josh: I wonder how it's going to do it seems like it's located the Josh: podcast and what i like about this is you could kind of see the chain of thought Josh: on that right tab over here so it's um it's opening the search results it says Josh: i found a link for the limitless podcast that leads to a youtube channel so Josh: it's as it's clicking through these things it's walking through the steps and Josh: it's just entered our channel so we're here um Ejaaz: Oh and i just clicked.

Josh: The subscribe button Okay, that's great. Ejaaz: We are now subscribed. Josh: Subscribing to Limitless is this easy. Ejaaz: And it's opened up. It's opened up our most recent video. Josh: Oh, this is kind of cool. Okay, it's doing it. Ejaaz: Let's see. Fingers crossed. Let's see. It's running a comment. Josh: Okay, it selected the comment, the text field. It's going to come up with hopefully Josh: something nice and generous.

Ejaaz: Wow, this is the latest episode. It was fantastic. Limitless is truly pushing Ejaaz: the boundaries. And will it click publish?

Josh: Let's see come on this is actually very impressive um how well it's working Josh: listen if you want to give a demo this is an excellent demo to do Ejaaz: Oh so i'm seeing on Ejaaz: here just gonna pause it i'm seeing on the right side it said i found the limitless Ejaaz: podcast channel subscribe to it and drafted a positive comment um would you Ejaaz: like me to post this comment now now what i like about this josh is it's asking

Ejaaz: for my review before it posted because this is something that might affect how Ejaaz: people perceive me on the internet. Ejaaz: And so therefore it understands that this is a point where I need to interact Ejaaz: with the human to check that if it's cool. Ejaaz: So if I respond, yes, go ahead, it should post that comment. Let's have a look. Josh: Okay, we're back at the sparkly screen, which is symboling it's doing something. Ejaaz: And it's click comment. Boom. It's done.

Josh: Sent. Done. Okay, that's pretty cool. That's epic. That's fun. Josh: It's a fun demo. It's fun to use.

Unique Use Cases for the New Browser

Josh: Now, granted, Ejaz, could you do this in the previous agent functionality of ChatGPT? Josh: Is that something you think would work? Ejaaz: No, because you would have to integrate YouTube directly into the ChatGPT terminal, Ejaaz: and that's not available. Josh: Okay, so this is a novel use case. That is exciting. Okay, so Ejaz, more demos. Josh: What else can this thing do? I know you yourself are a bit of a restaurant connoisseur. Josh: Do you have anything that we can test against that?

Ejaaz: I am. So this is a real life use case that I need resolved ASAP, Ejaaz: which is I'm booking a dinner for four somewhere in New York on Friday, Ejaaz: and I haven't got a single reservation. Ejaaz: So I am booking a dinner with my friends on Friday.

Ejaaz: Pick a restaurant in Ejaaz: williamsburg josh let's see uh williamsburg Ejaaz: and reserve it and so the agent as we've just demonstrated is going to uh find Ejaaz: a way uh to figure out what the best restaurant is in williamsburg or something Ejaaz: that might be suited towards my taste and hopefully book it Now, notice a few things. Ejaaz: I haven't given it my preference of time and I haven't kind of like logged into

Ejaaz: any reservation platform. So it's a little more challenging than the previous Ejaaz: prompt where I'd already logged into my YouTube. Ejaaz: Now, typically you could log into your resi and it could just do this swiftly Ejaaz: for you. So I'm interested to see how it starts to tackle this. Ejaaz: Okay, so it's asked me a follow-up because I didn't give it enough information, Ejaaz: which is number of guests and preferred time. Ejaaz: So four guests and...

Ejaaz: Uh around 7 p.m Ejaaz: and so it says let's do this it's starting to find reservations and what Ejaaz: we should see soon is a side window pop-up where it's going to start browsing Ejaaz: and using search to basically find a really cool restaurant now and there we Ejaaz: go right now it's looking at infatuation it's looking at eater these are all Ejaaz: popular food review sites that are in new york and it's going to find me something.

Ejaaz: But whilst that's cooking, Josh, I kind of want to show some similar, Ejaaz: not as loud, but quiet features from this new browser that I think is pretty Ejaaz: cool. So why don't you give me something to search? Josh: I want to know more about the new M5 version of the Apple Vision Pro. Josh: They just released it last week. I was interested in getting it. Josh: I want to know more about that.

Ejaaz: Okay, so let's go with Apple Vision Pro M5. So this is typical to any search Ejaaz: browser where you press enter, except you might notice a few different things here.

Exploring Search Capabilities

Ejaaz: So immediately, rather than being faced with a Google ranking page where you Ejaaz: can see a bunch of hyperlinks and you kind of figure out which is the right Ejaaz: website to click to get your information on, you're given a chat GPT page where Ejaaz: it summarizes, it says, okay, Ejaaz: Josh, I kind of figured that you want to know what's good about this M5 chip. Ejaaz: Here's like the new features from the chip and why it's going to be so useful for you.

Ejaaz: Here's what hasn't changed from the previous chip. And here's who this chip is mainly aimed for. Ejaaz: Maybe it's for a slightly more technical audience or someone that's looking Ejaaz: for a little bit more kick out of their computer than they're expecting. Ejaaz: So this is already more helpful for me than an average Google search where I Ejaaz: have to then go into the Apple website. Ejaaz: I need to navigate to the new M5 chip, Apple Vision Pros, and read about the new M5 thing.

Ejaaz: What I'm noticing is it hasn't told me about the Vision Pro specifically. Ejaaz: It has given me some general takeaways here. But what I think is really interesting Ejaaz: here, Josh, is if I don't want to look at a chat GPT response, Ejaaz: I have the option up here, and you might notice a few tabs, to click search. Ejaaz: And suddenly I have my Google search interface that I missed and that I wanted Ejaaz: to engage with and select a link for myself.

The Future of OpenAI's Browser

Ejaaz: But it also gives you the image option as well, which is, again, very typical of Google. Ejaaz: Or I can look at any videos of people who have done reviews of headsets for me. Ejaaz: So it's not straying too far from things that I'm comfortable with if I find Ejaaz: myself wanting to use those things again. Ejaaz: Do you have any immediate reactions to this, Josh?

Josh: Yeah, well, my first reaction was, oh my god imagine 800 Josh: million people using this product that is 800 million people less Josh: using google search so that felt like a big deal Josh: but now seeing that you can actually kind of invoke google Josh: search results which i'm assuming populates three of those four small Josh: tabs it softens the blow slightly but Josh: i imagine that's got to be transitory right like Josh: surely they don't want to continue to funnel traffic through

Josh: google if they don't need to um to me like this Josh: whole thing it just feels kind of like the one of the oldest plays Josh: in the books right like you have product market fit with a single killer Josh: use case you have the best ai and then you just kind of like vertically integrate Josh: and then horizontally expand until you control the interface layer itself so Josh: it's like open ai again we saw this with um chat gpt first then we saw with

Josh: recently with um what is the oh my gosh with sora and the image generation and Josh: now it's another example where they're Josh: It's only a matter of time to me until this platform grows into the life OS Josh: that we mentioned before and then displaces a lot of the services like Google.

Josh: I mean, the demo that you just did with the search, it's pretty closely replicable Josh: through the desktop application, but you're already here and this is how you're Josh: used to using the internet. Josh: So the fact that it could just inject itself right into it is really cool. Josh: And we're checking back in on this demo for getting a reservation. Josh: It looks like it's going pretty well. I know this restaurant.

Ejaaz: I have a massive grin on my face right now because although it didn't know this Ejaaz: about me, this is one of my favorite spots in the neighborhood. Ejaaz: Aurora Williamsburg, great Italian food for anyone who happens to find themselves in Brooklyn. Ejaaz: And it is reviewing another great restaurant as well. Ejaaz: And what I'm noticing is it's at the stage where it's condensed a bunch of the Ejaaz: top restaurants in my neighborhood and it's checking out reservation availability

Ejaaz: right now. This is something I despise when I'm looking for food, Ejaaz: Josh. I love eating the food. Ejaaz: I love ordering the food. I don't really like doing all the reservations. Ejaaz: It's going on the open table. It's finding out whether there's a time slot for Ejaaz: me. It's going on resi. It's doing the same kind of thing. Ejaaz: And I like that I can actively see its thinking in real time. That's awesome.

Josh: Okay, so I guess while that thinks, are there any final thoughts on ChatGPT? Josh: Maybe while I ask you, EJS, because this is a question I'm asking myself, Josh: is do you see yourself actually using this product? Ejaaz: No, not beyond a week. And I'm just going to be honest because I had a similar Ejaaz: experience when I was using Perplexity's AI browser that they released not too Ejaaz: long ago called Comet. We also reviewed that on the show here.

Ejaaz: I used it pretty actively, but I realized that the thing that it was lacking Ejaaz: the most was it didn't know enough about me. Ejaaz: And maybe OpenAI's browser changes that for me, right? It has all the history Ejaaz: that I need to know, but I don't think it's good enough. Ejaaz: Like, typically they say, if you want to introduce a new product that competes Ejaaz: with an old version of it, it needs to be at least 10 times better than it.

Ejaaz: I don't think this is 10 times better. Do you, Josh? Josh: I don't. I don't think it is. But I'm torn on whether or not I will use it. Josh: And I'm actually leaning more towards yes than no this time. Josh: And as like one of the biggest perplexity haters, I really think that this is Josh: different purely due to memory.

Josh: Like ChatGPT really knows a lot about me. And what was interesting is during Josh: the onboarding flow, when you first download the browser and you get set up, Josh: is they give you a really easy option to click to transfer your Chrome history Josh: over to this new browser. Josh: So in one click, you've kind of transferred all of your history, Josh: all of your tabs, all your favorites, your bookmarks, your reading list,

Josh: which is what I did. And then you kind of have to re-sign into the accounts again. Josh: But suddenly you do have this companion that kind of knows everything about Josh: you. It's just always there. Josh: And I want to say, I don't know. Like, I think the answer, you know what? Josh: If I'm being honest with myself, I think the answer is also no. Josh: I think one month from now, there's no way I'm using this browser. Josh: But I want to give this a shot.

Josh: And I think it's too early to tell for sure. But I think you're right in the Josh: sense that I'm very happy with Google Chrome, and I'm very happy with my ChatGPT Josh: desktop application and my web app and my mobile app. Josh: So it's going to take a lot to replace that. Ejaaz: So here's the thing, right? We probably use the web browser for two types of activities.

Ejaaz: One is work, right? Editing docs, coming up with agendas, researching a bunch Ejaaz: of things on X, YouTube, and then, you know, recording a video, Ejaaz: doing all these different types of things. Ejaaz: The other side is the leisure side of things, right? Ejaaz: Where you kind of want to be browsing and searching for your own things. Ejaaz: You're kind of like a discoverer on YouTube or like finding the right video Ejaaz: to watch whilst you read, right?

Ejaaz: I don't know how much Atlas as an AI browser can add towards the leisure side Ejaaz: of things. I kind of want to do that myself.

Ejaaz: Now, where I can see it actually being active here is, Ejaaz: to your point, if it knows everything about my browser history, Ejaaz: but it can do something with it, Ejaaz: aka imagine me opening up this browser and it has a bunch of tabs opened for Ejaaz: me for things that I want to read on my Reddit account for a particular post, or on X, Ejaaz: it's kind of opened up a post that it knows I'm going to like and want to start Ejaaz: my day off with, that could be quite cool.

Ejaaz: And I could see that being pretty Ejaaz: sticky, but that's just me being hopeful on the work side of things. Ejaaz: I would love if I could just wake up in the morning and I have like a neat, Ejaaz: concise summary of all the latest AI things that have happened overnight whilst I've been asleep. Ejaaz: That's probably a simple thing that I can ask the agent to do. Ejaaz: But again, I'm being hopeful.

Ejaaz: I want it to be proactive for me before I can like kind of commit to saying, Ejaaz: yeah, I'm going to use this as my new browser. Josh: Yeah, the leisure versus productivity thing. I actually brought up with Arvind Josh: on an episode that we did talking about perplexity. Josh: And I would recommend everyone goes and watch it because it gives some context Josh: on the thesis for the browser.

Josh: And I think you're right in a lot of cases, Ejaz. And also, I very strongly Josh: believe this is just a stepping stone because the way that they're going about Josh: it, it feels like OpenAI is kind of going for the life OS, whereas perplexity Josh: is kind of going for the browser.

Josh: And the browser very much feels like an incremental stepping Josh: stone where the reason right now the browser is better that Josh: we were talking about is because your accounts are logged in because it has Josh: the history because it has the context and if all that if all those hurdles Josh: went away um i think the most interesting and compelling part about this product Josh: is the agent feature the fact that it can go and do things without you and that's

Josh: what we just saw here it looks like you do actually have a reservation you guys Josh: you have two minutes to complete it are you going to do that i Ejaaz: Am yeah Yeah, yeah. So my agent came back to me and said, hey, Ejaaz: I found a good restaurant, Soraki, which is a great Greek spot near me. Ejaaz: I'm holding the reservation for you for four people. Do you want me to go ahead and book it? Ejaaz: And it is basically going ahead and doing that. So all in all useful.

Josh: Okay, well, I'm going to remove the screen share before it shows your phone Josh: number because we don't want everyone calling the line. Josh: But I think that that probably concludes the ChatGPT browser episode, Josh: right? Like it's, it is cool. It is impressive.

Conclusion and User Feedback

Josh: It is an incremental stepping stone but maybe not the killer product that Josh: some people would imagine. Ejaaz: Yeah. Yeah. I'm curious to hear what others have to say about this. Ejaaz: I mean, you've just seen everything. Ejaaz: We've given you the entire breakdown of all the cool features. Ejaaz: We've shown you all the demos about how it actually looks, how it works. Ejaaz: It's available to anyone who's on macOS right now. Windows coming soon right after.

Ejaaz: Let us know what you think. Are we wrong? Like, is there something useful that Ejaaz: is cool for you guys to use and we're not seeing let us know in the comments Ejaaz: let us know give us some feedback and and maybe we can kind of give a review on it later on.

Josh: Yeah just looking for killer use cases if there's anything Josh: we're missing there's also a funny thing on the availability of Josh: this ejaz where it's available to free plus and premium users but if you are Josh: a free user and you allow the atlas browser to become your default browser they Josh: will unlock seven days of extended limits on messaging file uploads data analysis Josh: and image generation on chat gpt atlas so there's a lot of growth Hex embedded in this.

Josh: It's very clear they're doing this to just kind of get as many people into the Josh: platform as possible and get more of that platform lock. Josh: And it's doing a good job. I mean, this is by all means a good product. Josh: It is in line with, I think, everything else that's on the market. Josh: And we'll just follow along and see how things go from here. Josh: But that has been another episode of the Limitless Podcast. Thank you so much for watching.

Josh: And we'll be back in a couple of days for the roundup of the week. I'll see you guys then.

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