Nathaniel Whittemore

Because it controls the full stack, it likely delivers stronger agent capabilities than wrappers.

Hold aside any claims that its performance is going to be better in the short term.

I think what Hater is getting at is that OpenAI, with the run-of-the-way most popular consumer chatbot, has the ability to more closely integrate that into this experience, which could be a differentiator when it comes to these new AI browser wars.

Noah Epstein thinks that it's all about targeting Google search dominance.

He wrote, Over 50% of Alphabet's $237 billion in annual revenue comes from search advertising.

Chrome to Google search to behavioral data to targeted ads equals their entire empire.

Atlas threatens every single link in the chain.

He then goes on to point out how all of OpenAI's moves start to add up to something that starts to not only command more and more of people's attention, but is able to collect context from them and then turn that context into both advertising, should that be the route they go choose, as well as commerce.

They point out the recent checkout features as significant with this.

Another set of first response takes was that some of the people who tried this really just liked the experience.

iRuleTheWorld, which is an OpenAI leaker account, says using the new OpenAI browser, it's actually insane how smooth it is.

Feels like the future of the internet.

Pat Walls from Starter Story writes, OpenAI is so good at product.

ChatGPT Atlas is amazing.

Immediately switched from Chrome and I've used that for 10 years.

Everything they create is so, so good.

This is why they'll win.

But holding aside just fawning tweets about the quality of the product, others tried to figure out what it was actually useful for.

Liam Ballin gave his first impressions.

He found the new agent mode to work pretty well for him around things like ordering coffee or filling out a TSA pre-check form.