- Openai is planning to launch an AI-driven web browser, report requirements
- It could arrive “in the coming weeks” and compete with Google Chrome
- This would give Openai access to comprehensive user data, Pakinomist says
Browser Wars could be warming up in a big way, with chatgpt-maker Openai apparently set to launch his own web browser in the coming weeks. According to Pakinomist, it could put considerable pressure on Google Chrome and potentially “fundamentally change how consumers are reviewing the Internet.”
With reference to “Three people familiar with the case,” Pakinomist reports that the browser will have an artificial intelligence (AI) chat interface that would hold many user interactions in the chat window instead of linking to external sites.
In addition to that, the browser may integrate Openais AI agent – called operator – which would allow the app to “perform tasks on the user’s behalf.” This may include “reservations of reservations or filling forms” on the sites you are using.
Openais Browser is apparently built using Google’s Open Source chrome technology, which runs Chrome, Edge and many of the other best web browsers. Openai’s product will launch “In the coming weeks”, Pakinomist’ sources believe.
Analysis: The fight for your data Goldmine
Openai is facing fierce competition in the browser world. Google Chrome is currently enjoying a choking position with about two -thirds of the available market share.
The AI company’s confusion and web companies Brave and Browser Company have also launched their own AI browsers. Like Openai’s rumor effort, Perplexity’s browser can perform tasks on your behalf.
Pakinomist suggests a clear motive for Openai: User Data. Running its own browser would allow the company to harvest as much information as possible from users who could then go back to educating its AI models and providing other revenue options.
After all, Chrome “User Information provides to help alphabetical target ads more efficiently and profitable, and also gives Google a way to route search traffic to its own engine by default,” Pakinomist said. An Openai browser would give the AI company a similar powerful access route to lucrative data.
If you are concerned about your privacy, Openais browser will probably call alarm bells in your head. Openai has been criticized for its data collection practice, just as Google Chrome. Like someone who has used Firefox for over two decades, it has worried me.
When you collect users’ private data, an incentive to launch a browser – which Pakinomist means it may be – is advised of serious caution. We get a clearer idea of all this when Openai’s web browser is launched later in the year, so keep your eyes peeled.
