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He also pointed out that because it's native to macOS, it's integrated with things like auto-filling iMessage two-factor authentication codes, and he really liked the UI.

He did find that there was some variance in certain sites being blocked when it comes to summarizing content, creating kind of a balkanized experience when it came to the news, but overall favorable first impressions.

Jackie Chow at Indexy said that he's currently using Atlas as a CRO, asking ChatGPT for landing page changes, using it for meta ads, asking how to optimize campaigns, using it to improve YouTube thumbnails, drafting cold email responses, and getting other suggestions for UI UX improvements.

Reza Martin, who helped create NotebookLM and is now working on a new startup, did a head-to-head test between OpenAI Atlas and Perplexity Common on a very specific real-world use case.

She writes, "...I have a very real, very tedious use case, which is a manual task that I do every day.

One, I go to the school website to look at each of my daughter's classes.

Two, I look at her grades.

Three, I look at her assignments, quizzes, and all classwork that are due.

Four, I make a table that keeps track of all of this, which helps keep both of us accountable."

Since there's so much manual clicking, scrolling, reading, and data, she asked both Common and Atlas to help with that, and then gave them a score on context, i.e.

how well they understood the task, speed, how long it took, and then how well it did completing it correctly.

Atlas pretty much smoked Common in that test, especially the overall completion, where Common got just a 1, but the Atlas agent got a 5.

She concluded, overall, I still don't have a ton of agentic web browsing use cases, but it's great to be able to automate this one particular task.

And when it comes to finding use cases, I think that some people are viewing this as the opening salvo for an environment in which people will discover new use cases rather than there being preset use cases just poured over.

Ada McLaughlin, who is a research scientist at OpenAI, writes, "...my quick two cents on the browser.

I didn't use Codex that much when it was cloud only, but when it came to my CLI, it became super useful."

I didn't use agent that much when it was cloud only, but now that it's come to my browser, dot, dot, dot.

With the implication being that having the integrated browser in that context opens up opportunities to use it.

Some folks, of course, were zooming out ahead to the possibilities.

Greg Eisenberg writes, my takeaway from today's open AI browser launch is that the internet just got hands.