{"slug": "openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into", "title": "OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT", "summary": "OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas browser, launched in October 2025, after less than eight months, folding its features into an updated Chrome extension that integrates ChatGPT into the browser's sidebar. The company also introduced a new desktop \"Computer Use\" feature that allows ChatGPT to perform tasks across apps and browsers. The move consolidates OpenAI's offerings into ChatGPT but leaves it without a standalone browser to compete with Google Chrome.", "body_md": "# OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT\n\n**OpenAI is already killing its AI browser Atlas, launched just last October 2025.** Its features are moving into an updated Chrome extension that lets users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome's sidebar. The company says it's folding in what it learned from Atlas and user feedback. Atlas users will get notified about the switch. Separately, the new desktop \"Computer Use\" feature lets ChatGPT handle tasks in the background. It can click, type, move files, and work across apps *and browsers*, either as a one-off action or a recurring task.\n\n[When Atlas launched, it looked like a shot at Chrome](https://the-decoder.com/openai-launches-atlas-a-new-web-browser-built-around-chatgpt-integration/). Now OpenAI is pulling the plug less than eight months later. That puts the browser on a growing list of scrapped or not very successful OpenAI products, [alongside plugins](https://the-decoder.com/openai-rolls-out-more-than-70-chatgpt-plugins-including-internet-access/), [apps](https://the-decoder.com/openai-drops-new-features-for-chatgpts-desktop-apps/), the [ChatGPT Agent](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-agent-reportedly-lost-75-of-its-users-because-nobody-knew-what-it-was-actually-for/), and the [Sora video model](https://the-decoder.com/openais-sora-burned-a-million-dollars-a-day-while-losing-half-its-users-in-record-time/). For users, bundling everything into ChatGPT might actually be more convenient. But it also means OpenAI has no way to pull users away from Chrome, giving Google a competitive edge thanks to all the browsing data it collects.\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into-chatgpt/", "published_at": "2026-07-10 12:19:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 12:38:16.168273+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Atlas", "ChatGPT", "Google Chrome", "Sora"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-kills-its-atlas-browser-after-just-eight-months-and-folds-everything-into.jsonld"}}