If someone had asked me a year ago what might be the next big innovation to come out of the major AI companies, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have said, “a browser.”
But that’s exactly what both OpenAI and Perplexity did, each launching their own shiny new AI-enabled browsers, Atlas and Comet, respectively.
If you read the PR comms or watch the launch demos, both companies frame their new browsers as the first step towards completely reshaping how regular consumers use the internet. In OpenAI’s livestream to launch Atlas, Sam Altman said…

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