We are excited to share ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser designed around ChatGPT.
It gives us a rare moment to think about what it means to use the web. Last year, we added search in ChatGPT so you could instantly find timely information from across the internet, and it quickly became one of our most used features. Your browser is where all of your work, tools, and context come together. A browser built with ChatGPT takes us nearer to a true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals.
With Atlas, ChatGPT is always with you as you browse, ready to help right where you are. It understands what you are trying to do and can complete tasks for you all without needing to copy, paste, or switch pages. Your ChatGPT memory is built in, so it can utilize past chats and details to help you accomplish new tasks.
During lectures, I like using practice questions and concrete examples to really understand the material. I used to switch between my slides and ChatGPT, taking screenshots to ask a question. Now ChatGPT instantly understands what I’m looking at, helping me improve my knowledge checks as I go—Yogya Kalra, college student and early tester of ChatGPT Atlas.
As you use Atlas, ChatGPT learns and becomes more helpful. Browser memories let ChatGPT remember information from the sites you visit and bring it back when you need it. For example, you can ask, “Find all the job postings I was looking for last week and create a summary regarding industry trends so I can prepare for interviews.” Browser memories in Atlas are optional, and you are always in control. You can view or archive them in settings, and deleting your browsing history also deletes any related browser memories.
LGBT can also help you get things done in Atlas using agent mode. This mode is now faster and more useful because it works with your browsing content. It’s better at researching, analyzing, automating tasks, and planning events or booking appointments while you browse. Agent mode in Atlas is available now in preview for Plus Pro and Business users.
ChatGPT Atlas is now available worldwide on macOS for free, as well as for Pro and Go users. Atlas is also in beta for business users and, if their plan administrator allows, for enterprise and Edu users. Versions for Windows, iOS, and Android are coming soon.
You can download Atlas at chatgpt.com/atlas. Getting started is simple. Open Atlas, sign in to ChatGPT, and import your bookmarks, savedpasswords, and browsing history from your current browser.
Works In Your Flow
In Atlas, the new Tag page is your starting point. You can ask a question or enter a URL to get quick, helpful results all in one place. If you want more specific results, you can choose tags for search, links, images, videos, and news (where available).
Built Around You
ChatGPT can remember what you’ve looked at and suggest your next steps. This might mean:
- going back to previous pages
- exploring a topic for the finding
- related ideas
- automating regular tasks
More Capability, More Control
You control what ChatGPT can see and remember as you browse. You can clear specific pages, clear your entire browsing history, or use an incognito window to log out of ChatGPT temporarily. ChatGPT will remember important details from the content you browse to improve chat responses and offer smarter suggestions, like creating a to-do list from your recent activity or continuing to research holiday gifts based on products you’ve viewed.
Browser memories are private to your ChatGPT account, and you can control them. You can see all your memories in settings, archive the ones you don’t need, and delete them by clearing your browsing history. Even with browser history enabled, you can choose which sites ChatGPT can access. If the toggle in the address bar is off, ChatGPT can’t see the page content and won’t create any memories from it.
By default, we don’t use your browsing content to train our models. If you want to include this content, you can turn on “Include web browsing” in your data controls. Even if you opt in, web pages that block GPTBot won’t be used for training. If you enable training for chats in your ChatGPT account, it will also apply to chats in Atlas. This includes website content you attach to the Ask ChatGPT sidebar and browser memories that help inform your chats.
Parental Controls work in Atlas 2. If a parent has set up Parental Controls for ChatGPT, these settings will carry over to conversations with ChatGPT in Atlas. We are also launching new Parental Controls in Atlas, including the option for parents to turn off Browser Memories and Agent Mode.
Get Work Done for You
At Atlas, you can now ask ChatGPT to take action and complete tasks for you directly in your browser.
Earlier this year, we introduced the ChatGPT agent, and now it works faster and is built right into Atlas. You can give the recipe to ChatGPT and ask it to find a grocery store, add all the ingredients to a cart, and order them to your house. At work, you can ask ChatGPT to open and review past team documents, conduct new competitive research, and compile findings for a team brief.
When you ask a question, ChatGPT might check if you want it to open tabs and click in your browser to finish the task. You can also start agent mode by clicking the button.
Starting today, Agent mode in Atlas is available in preview for Plus, Pro, and Business users. It’s still early, and we may make mistakes on complex tasks, but we are working quickly to improve reliability, speed, and success with more complex workflows.
We prioritized safety as we built ChatGPT’s agent capabilities in Atlas and added safeguards to address new risks that can come from access to logged-in sites and browsing history while taking actions on your behalf. For example:
- It cannot run code in the browser, download files, or install extensions.
- It cannot access other apps on your computer or file system.
- Will pause to ensure you are watching it take action on specific sensitive sites, such as financial institutions.
- You can use an agent in lockdown mode to limit its access to sensitive data and the risk of it taking actions on your behalf on websites.
ChatGPT’s agent features still have some risks. Besides making mistakes while acting for you, agents can be tricked by hidden malicious instructions in places like web pages or emails. This could overwrite the agent’s intended behavior and might lead to stealing data from sites you’re logged into or taking actions you didn’t want.
As outlined in the ChatGPT agent system card, they’ve run thousands of hours of focused red-teaming and have placed particular emphasis on safeguarding ChatGPT from such attacks, including designing safeguards that can be rapidly adapted to novel attacks. Still, our safeguards will not stop every attack that appears as AI agents grow in popularity. Users ought to weigh the trade-offs when deciding what information to provide to the agent and take steps to minimize their exposure to these risks, such as using the ChatGPT agent in locked-out mode in Atlas. We will continue to monitor and patch any vulnerabilities that we discover.
This launch is a step toward a future where most web use occurs through agent systems. You will be able to hand off regular tasks and focus on what matters most.
What’s Next?
We continue to make Atlas better, and our roadmap includes:
- multi-profile support
- improved developer tools
- ways for app SDK developers to increase the discoverability of their apps on the Atlas website
- Owners can now add ARIA tags to improve how that ChatGPT agent works on their websites in Atlas
This is only the beginning. We’ll be adding new features and improvements often. You can keep up with the updates in our release notes. Try it now at chatgbt.com/atlas.
Source: Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
