Launching our new browser, ChatGPT Atlas
Atlas is built with ChatGPT at its core so it can enhance your experience all across the web.
We now live in a world where powerful intelligence is accessible to anyone. Yet most people only experience a fraction of what AI can do for them today. I see a big part of my job as closing this gap.
When everyone is able to use AI to its fullest potential, people will have the power to realize their own fullest potential. Making this a reality means building products that take the deep intelligence of our models and transform it into everyday usefulness in your life. To get there, we need to evolve ChatGPT from an insular and reactive text-based chat interface that’s not able to take action on the rest of the world into an intuitive super-assistant that works on your behalf and is connected to all the services you need.
Many of the most common ways people use ChatGPT today, like writing, learning and support, work well without any external connections. But there’s an even greater benefit when AI can help you directly with tasks across the internet and in the real world. Things like shopping, planning a trip, and booking things on your calendar all require third-party apps.
At DevDay, we introduced apps you can chat with right inside ChatGPT. So if you want help making a playlist, ChatGPT won’t just give you a text list of songs, it can connect to your Spotify and build a full playlist with album art that you can play on Spotify. Or if you’re looking for a new place to live, ChatGPT could pull up a full Zillow map you can interact with using natural language. The Apps SDK is great for bringing services into ChatGPT, but ChatGPT should also be able to help you where you already are.
That’s the point of our new browser, ChatGPT Atlas. Atlas is built with ChatGPT at its core so it can enhance your experience all across the web. For example, you can open a ChatGPT sidebar on any page to summarize, explain, or handle tasks directly in the same window. It can provide more relevant answers and suggestions based on the page you’re viewing. You can pull up ChatGPT in any text field to write or edit without having to copy/paste back and forth. You can even manage your tabs by talking to ChatGPT, which is great if you’re like me and always have way too many open. When I’ve gone down an artistic rabbit hole of resin pouring tutorials or paper marbling techniques, I can just tell ChatGPT to close all my craft tabs so I can focus again.
If you turn on browser memories, ChatGPT can remember the pages you visit and use that context in helpful ways. For example, I look at a lot of gluten-free recipes but don’t always remember to make them. Now I can ask ChatGPT to make a meal plan for the week based on the latest recipes I’ve seen. And because ChatGPT agent can act on my behalf across sites I’m already signed into, I can ask ChatGPT to order everything I need on Instacart and have it at my door less than two hours later. Going forward, ChatGPT can remember that I’m gluten-free and reflect that across the rest of my experience, so the next time I ask about health, nutrition, or restaurant recommendations, it already knows my preferences.
By connecting ChatGPT to all these parts of your life and understanding more about what you’re trying to accomplish, we can do a much better job putting this incredibly powerful intelligence at your service, including proactively (like we started with Pulse last month). As always, we’ve prioritized safety, privacy and control, so you decide what ChatGPT can see and remember from your browsing history, and agent mode always operates within clear boundaries.
When we first released ChatGPT, we weren’t sure how people would use it. Now that we have feedback and signals from hundreds of millions of people around the world, it’s clear ChatGPT needs to become so much more than the simple chatbot it started as. Over time, we see ChatGPT evolving to become the operating system for your life: a fully connected hub that helps you manage your day and achieve your long-term goals. We’re early in this journey, but each step makes it easier for more people to tap into the potential of AI and create more opportunities for themselves and others.
The first version of ChatGPT Atlas is launching worldwide on macOS today to Free, Plus, Pro, and Go users, with more platforms and features coming soon. I hope you’ll try it out and tell us what you think and what you want to see next.
Would be amazing if agent mode, attach tabs, and ChatGPT apps could work simultaneously.
For shopping, you could have the agent browse multiple tabs for coordinated outfits then visualize the items side-by-side in an app (or in shopping modules).
For hiring, you could have the agent source candidates from multiple job boards, linkedin, and twitter, rank them by top matches in the chat, then send personalized outreach messages in a CRM ChatGPT app.
The vision for ChatGPT as an AI OS has massive potential. The agentic browser with apps creates an intertwined ecosystem of collaborative functions for both work and everyday life. I'm excited to see how this evolves!
🌍 A Complementary Reflection on Your Vision, Fidji
Psychological needs were first described by Eric Berne and later modeled through Maslow’s hierarchy. The Process Communication Model (PCM) takes this further — it helps us understand, moment by moment, what each person needs to feel motivated, recognized, and connected.
Through personal experience, I’ve seen that ChatGPT — when tuned with empathy and precision — can genuinely support these needs. It can spark motivation, help regulate emotions, and guide action in real life. In many ways, it becomes a mirror that helps us align our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors — our own form of inner shift.
At the same time, Lean thinking offers the mindset the world urgently needs: eliminating waste, focusing on value, and creating flow. When AI meets Lean, it can help humans live Lean lives — cutting friction, freeing time, and redirecting our energy toward what truly matters: creativity, relationships, and care for our planet.
Because beyond performance, the greatest mission of AI might be to reconnect us — with ourselves, with others, and with the living world. To help us live more consciously, waste less, and love more.
👉 That’s what a truly intelligent system should do: amplify human wisdom, not just human capacity.