- Atlassian will buy the browser company for $ 610 million
- It wants to support the development of DIA, a new AI-driven browser
- The way we interact with the Internet will change, and the inheritance browsers are not in shape
Atlassian is ready to buy the browser company responsible for ARC and DIA, for $ 610 million in cash.
The company says its first focus will be to improve the DIA browser by optimizing it for SaaS apps, but it will also integrate AI via browser-based context to help users “connect the dots between … apps, tabs and tasks.”
“Your current browser is not designed to help you move some of this work forward,” noted atlassian co-founder and co-ceo Mike Cannon-Brookes. “It was designed before the explosion of SaaS apps and long before the current AI Revolution.”
Atlassian clicks up and dia for $ 610 million.
Despite the support of a much larger software company, the browser company is set to continue to function independently.
The trade came from discussions about enterprise preparedness of ARC used by Atlassical workers. Improved data protection, security and control lacked in the browser company’s tools, and thus Atlassian steps in to ramp these up, says it.
Cannon-Brookes also quoted a separate gardener research that claims, although 85% of the average employee’s day is spent in the browser, fewer than 10% have adopted a secure corporate browser.
Gartner noticed with a secure company browser, administrators can enforce security policies, reduce the dependence on VPNs and VDIs and increase visibility and reporting.
When he talked about DIA, the browser company claimed that “web pages are no longer the primary interface.”
Instead, users interact more with AI chat interfaces. However, “new interfaces from families” starts, which is why DIA still looks like older browsers, requiring a smaller learning curve and supporting a longer term transition.
Cannon-Brookes expect the combination of a “passion[ate]”Browser Builder and a software company that has a” deep expertise in how the world’s best teams work “will result in a truly powerful next generation browser.
