ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI takes on the internet’s heavy lifting

In Greek mythology, Atlas was a titan doomed to carry the weight of the heavens. Today, in the digital age, the internet itself has become the burden — with its overload of information, chaotic bookmarks and complex tasks. It seems that OpenAI now aims to take on this digital load with ChatGPT Atlas — a browser designed to actively understand context, remember past interactions and autonomously perform tasks for us. This is an attempt to build from the ground up a new way of interacting with the internet, centered not around an address bar but an intelligent assistant.

A browser that knows what you’re doing

The main idea behind Atlas is to break through the biggest barrier modern chatbots face: the lack of context. Instead of copying text, taking screenshots and pasting them into a separate chat window, Atlas is designed to understand what’s happening on the page in real time, natively. ChatGPT becomes a constant assistant in the sidebar, always ready to help without the need to switch tabs.