OpenAI wants to benefit Chrome by releasing its own browser with built-in ChatGPT

Competition between Google And OpenAI could enter new territory in the not-too-distant future. Reportedly Informationthose led by Sam Altman have begun to explore the possibility launch your own web browser with built-in ChatGPT to compete with Chrome.

All indications are that the project is still in its early stages, so an OpenAI Chrome response is not expected to be available immediately. However, it could be a pretty strong sign that San Franciscans are unhappy about being pitted against their neighbors in Mountain View in the areas of generative artificial intelligence and web search, and that they are looking to do better.

While no technical details of the proposed OpenAI web browser are mentioned, it is stated that the user experience Its basis will be integration with ChatGPT.. The concept may not seem too new, considering that other apps in this segment (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, etc.) already offer AI-powered tools or are complemented by chatbots. The difference in Altman’s favor would be that they could form browser around ChatGPT, not the other way around.

A web browser with ChatGPT will be OpenAI’s next big project.

But as appealing as the OpenAI browser with built-in ChatGPT sounds may be, eating Chrome toast may not be so easy. Google software is by far the most used software in the world on both desktop and mobile devices. According to StatCounterits global market share as of October 2024 was more than 66% and has remained virtually unchanged over the past 12 months. In second place in popularity is Safari, but it accounts for only 18% shareand further down comes Edge, Firefox and Opera, which don’t even reach double digits.

Be careful: the fact that a proposed OpenAI browser must start from scratch doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t be successful, but it does mean that it will take quite a long time to achieve usage levels even close to those of other Chrome competitors that already exist today.

What could help the project are the challenges Google faces today in the United States. The Mountain View companies have been declared monopolists, and the Justice Department wants them to sell Chrome as part of their proposed behavioral and structural measures. The fate of the application will not be determined until April 2025, but doubts about its future may serve give a boost this new initiative is focused on ChatGPT.

Logical bet

OpenAI has not yet publicly commented on the possibility of developing its own Internet browser. but this type of bet sounds quite logical; especially if you look at the startup’s efforts in the web search segment.

Altman’s people are already working on SearchGPT and recently integrated this functionality into ChatGPT. But not only that, they have also released an official Chrome extension that allows you to set your AI chatbot as the default search engine in the address bar of your Google software.

Besides, Information reports that OpenAI has begun discussions with several companies such as Condé Nast, Priceline and Eventbrite to implement its AI search engine on their respective websites. To this will be added dialogues with Samsung offer ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools on their devices, similar to what they already do with Apple.