OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI 即将关闭 Atlas，但其 AI 浏览器雄心仍在增长
OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a Google Chrome extension. OpenAI 正在关停 Atlas，这是一款于去年 10 月推出、以 ChatGPT 为核心的 AI 浏览器。但该公司并未放弃“AI 应辅助用户浏览网页”这一理念。相反，它正在将 Atlas 中测试的部分智能代理浏览功能，重新整合到 ChatGPT 桌面应用和 Google Chrome 扩展程序中。
The move to shut down Atlas comes a few months after OpenAI’s CEO of applications Fidji Simo told the team to cut back on “side quests,” which led to the AI firm shutting down its AI video generation tool Sora. 此次关停 Atlas 的举动，距离 OpenAI 应用部门首席执行官 Fidji Simo 要求团队减少“支线任务”仅过去几个月。此前，这一策略调整也导致了该公司关停了其 AI 视频生成工具 Sora。
For much of the past year, the AI industry had been engaged in a war to unseat Chrome as the place where people spend most of their time online. Perplexity launched Comet, The Browser Company launched Dia, and Google and Microsoft have updated Chrome and Edge, respectively, with new AI-powered features. 在过去的一年里，AI 行业一直在进行一场争夺战，试图取代 Chrome 成为人们在线时间最长的地方。Perplexity 推出了 Comet，The Browser Company 推出了 Dia，而谷歌和微软也分别通过新的 AI 功能更新了 Chrome 和 Edge 浏览器。
After a few months of experimenting, OpenAI appears to have concluded that the browser is a feature, not the destination. So it’s folding Atlas’s browser-like agent capabilities into the places people already work — and that includes Chrome. 经过几个月的实验，OpenAI 似乎得出结论：浏览器只是一种功能，而非最终目的地。因此，它正在将 Atlas 的类浏览器代理功能整合到人们现有的工作环境中——这其中也包括 Chrome。
OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT extension on Chrome that gives it access to the context of the page you’re viewing, lets users ask questions about webpages, summarize content, or start longer tasks all from the browser. It’s a direct competitor to Google’s Gemini Side Panel, which performs several of the same tasks. OpenAI 正在 Chrome 上推出一款 ChatGPT 扩展程序，该程序可以访问用户当前浏览页面的上下文，允许用户直接在浏览器中针对网页提问、总结内容或启动更复杂的任务。这直接对标了谷歌的 Gemini 侧边栏（Gemini Side Panel），后者也具备多项类似功能。
OpenAI is also boosting its ChatGPT desktop app by featuring a more robust browser that allows users to browse websites, log into accounts, download files, and interact with web pages without leaving ChatGPT. A separate cloud browser runs remotely on OpenAI’s servers as a place where the app’s agents can complete tasks on a user’s behalf. Together, the updates turn ChatGPT into a continuous workspace that spans Chrome, the desktop app, and an AI agent. OpenAI 还通过引入更强大的浏览器来增强其 ChatGPT 桌面应用，使用户无需离开 ChatGPT 即可浏览网站、登录账户、下载文件并与网页进行交互。一个独立的云端浏览器将在 OpenAI 的服务器上远程运行，作为应用代理代表用户完成任务的场所。这些更新共同将 ChatGPT 转变为一个跨越 Chrome、桌面应用和 AI 代理的连续工作空间。