The battle for the future of the internet is underway

Analysis by Lisa Eadicicco, CNN

Updated 7 hr ago

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser is a challenge to Google Chrome.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Atlas browser is a challenge to Google Chrome. Philip Dulian/picture alliance/dpa/Getty Images

The tug-of-war over the internet’s future escalated dramatically on Tuesday after OpenAI unveiled a new product that takes direct aim at the heart of Google’s core business: controlling the world’s front door to the internet.

OpenAI this week released ChatGPT Atlas, a desktop web browser infused with the popular AI chatbot. The product is more than just a way to expand ChatGPT, which now has more than 800 million weekly users. It’s an attempt to become the pathway to websites, social media and other online services, giving it a more direct role in everything people do online. Google has dominated that business for two decades. OpenAI is betting it can start to take over.

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