OpenAI is Killing the Atlas Web Browser

Buried in today’s OpenAI news is another tidbit that I missed: The company is killing its Atlas web browser.

“We are going to be sunsetting Atlas,” OpenAI’s James Sun writes on Twitter/X. “All these capabilities were built on what we learned from Atlas users who took a leap of faith on a new browser. You taught us how agents can help make browsing and doing work on the open web better, and we are applying these learnings to these new products.”

OpenAI launched Atlas for the Mac last October, but it never brought the standalone web browser to other platforms, like Windows. A March rumor claimed that the company would release a “super app” combining ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas, and it appears that today’s ChatGPT Work announcement confirms that. But that super app will be ChatGPT, which now provides ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas (and Work) together.

OpenAI plans to depreciate Atlas on August 9 and says it will provide more information soon. It will also update its ChatGPT extension for Chrome so that customers can use ChatGPT directly in Chrome’s sidebar. But the ChatGPT app for Windows and Mac also includes a built-in web browser, so OpenAI isn’t just merging Codex into ChatGPT, it’s merging Atlas too.