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• @haydenfield Hayden Field on bluesky

  NEW: OpenAI has officially closed its nearly $6.5 billion acquisition of io, the hardware startup co-founded by famous Apple designer Jony Ive.  But it was careful to only refer to the startup as io Products Inc., due to a trademark lawsuit.  —  www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

• @tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren on bluesky

  Perplexity just launched an AI web browser, and OpenAI is rumored to be launching its own browser to compete with Chrome.  Mix this together with Google search results trending towards AI answers, and it sure feels like the open web is under attack www.theverge.com/news/703037/ .…

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  OpenAI continues to attempt to compete with Microsoft, who has access to all OpenAI's technology and a foothold on desktops, mobile and in the browser market  —  honestly, everything they come up with makes me want to do the ‘bold move, Cotton’ reference [embedded post]

• @kevinrothrock.me Kevin Rothrock on bluesky

  OpenAI is close to releasing its Chrome-killer, which sounds like a supped-up version of the new Dia browser, which sucks. www.reuters.com/business/med...

• @t0nyyates Tony Yates on bluesky

  OpenAI have paid Ives $6.5bn for something but I am not sure what.  It doesn't seem to be for the sound ‘eye-oh’ as that's the subject of an intellectual property dispute. www.theverge.com/news/703114/ ...

• @ricmac@mastodon.social Richard MacManus on mastodon

  Interesting that OpenAI's browser is being built atop Chromium.  One of the people who built Chromium, Ben Goodger, now works for OpenAI.  He posted this just today: “While being part of the team that created Chrome in 2006-2008 was in so many ways a highlight of my career …

• @yoheinakajima Yohei on x

  New AI Browsers: @perplexity_ai's Comet @DiaBrowser by @browsercompany @Opera Neon @FellouAI @genspark_ai's browser @nimoinfinity @OpenAI's new thing Will they make a dent? Historical market share: [image]

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome // Two thoughts: 1) Hoping they lead with features that matter and not surveillance as the headline and 2) Generals fighting the last war. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @parkerortolani Parker Ortolani on x

  OpenAI's will. The second they add a “download our browser” ad to ChatGPT the youths will switch off Chrome and Safari. No question in my mind. The emotional connection people are establishing with ChatGPT (consciously or not) is going to drive massive growth.

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Google realized back in the day that information-seeking queries are not an organically repetitive behavior, like social. Chrome was a way to get users to continue to use search on the omnibar without even having to navigate to google[dot]com. It was a genius move for them.

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Now, ChatGPT is closing in on 1B monthly active users and likely wants to do the same. Control the portal to the internet, make ChatGPT the default way to ask anything. Perplexity today just launched the Comet browser for a similar reason.

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Today there's another important reason You can mine a plethora of data on browsing activity, user behavior and usage behavior on websites. This is a) a useful signal to improve underlying web search better b) amazing training data to automate actions across all of the web

• @johnbuckley_ John Buckley on x

  Can't imagine news publishers which don't already have deals with OpenAI will be happy about this: “OpenAI's browser is designed to keep some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites” https://www.reuters.com/...

• @signulll @signulll on x

  chrome's growth playbook was brutally simple... every other browser (mostly ie) sucked at the time, & google owned the web.  search, gmail, etc... billions of visits per day.  swap in a better browser with infinite in house distribution & reminders like these.  instant dominance.…

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  I think it's worth contextualizing the concept of “AI Browsers” against the behaviors people might want to automate. Looking at top websites by visits and time spent, we can quickly see these browsers are mostly search and shopping plays. Not a small slice! [image]

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  I get the strategic need to build AI browsers, but I also watch users close chat interfaces on websites, instinctually, right after the cookie alert.

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Holy shit it's happening. OpenAI wants to own ALL the distribution. [image]

• @basedlayer Fernando Nikolić on x

  I genuinely think the dev team over at Google would be worried about this but they're all still on Bluesky

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  Might explain why Perplexity released theirs today:

• @kenrickcai Kenrick Cai on x

  Scoop: OpenAI is planning to launch a Google Chrome competitor within weeks. The browser includes a chat interface that would help keep users from having to click through to external links, sources tell @Reuters. from @readkrystalhu @annatonger and me: https://www.reuters.com/...

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  A reminder that SimilarWeb found that the only real traffic beneficiaries of ChatGPT were those who entered financial partnerships with the company. And that should be a terrifying thought to anyone who cares about how and what information is surfaced to next generations.

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Perplexity also released a browser today, but link referral from Perplexity hovers at around a 1.5% share. Google was far from perfect — SEO hacking is a thing — but we're looking at a total collapse in the blogging middle class.

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  I bet folks at google are not sitting idly by! First @diabrowser pivoted into AI, now @PerplexityComet, and OpenAI is about to release a AI powered browser next? Expect Google to shove Gemini in there, for free, and re-imagine the web. What this means for internet as a

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Reuters is reporting that OpenAI is about to release an AI-powered web browser to directly compete with Chrome that will ‘fundamentally change how consumers browse the web’. [image]

• @mikebutcher Mike Butcher on x

  Breaking: The Browser Wars Begun, They Have. OpenAI's Web browser will include a chat interface, and include agents. It is now ON with Google (because Chrome). Capturing data on users' is (Hey, Meta!) once again the name of the game. https://www.reuters.com/...

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  OpenAI to release a web browser to challenge Google Chrome “in the coming weeks”

• r/diabrowser r on reddit

  Report: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

• r/artificial r on reddit

  Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  REUTERS: OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  OpenAI to release a web browser to challenge Google Chrome “in the coming weeks”