Should You Use OpenAI's New Browser?

OpenAI just released another big thing.

They have their own browser now and it's

making real waves all across the

internet. And I really wanted to make

this video to talk about if this is any

good and worth your attention. How this

compares to some of the competition out

there cuz this product doesn't exist in

a vacuum because consumers have many

choices these days. And three, how

capable is it actually? So let's start

that discussion by summarizing what this

actually is. It's called Chachib Atlas,

a brand new browser that is as of now

available on Mac OS for all plans. Yes,

that includes the free plan and there's

no geographic restrictions here. So even

people sitting in Europe like me can try

this out right now. If you're on a Mac,

simply download this, install this,

login with your Chat GPT account, and

off you go. This is what it looks like.

It's basically a browser that has Chat

GPT as the default new tab window with a

few things that should be noted. and it

brings some unique features compared to

just using chatb in a tab as everybody

has been so far. First of all, and kind

of obviously if you're on any website,

you can just click ask chat here and you

have it right there and it has the

context of the entire site loaded into

the chat. No need to copy paste. You can

kind of just talk to it. And at this

point, I want to start pointing out how

this compares to some of the competition

cuz this is not a brand new idea. These

Chrome extensions that do this have been

around well since the advent of chat in

2022. It's a useful thing, but honestly,

copying something and moving it to a new

tab isn't that big of a pain point. So,

call this one a nice to have. Secondly,

and more interesting, so they have this

concept of browser memories. So, if I go

here to my settings and I go to

personalization, you will see a new

category here where it says reference

browser memories. If you're familiar

with chatdy memories, this is the same

idea, but from your browsing experience.

So, as it learns about your internet

usage, it adds them here. This is a

thing I don't dare to express an opinion

on yet cuz time will show how this is

actually implemented. And this is a very

unique feature that I believe we haven't

seen from any other product yet, but at

the end of the day, it's just another

way to automatically gather context and

save it to your account. Beyond that, I

should point out when you install this,

it asks you to import all of your

bookmarks and your history from Google

Chrome. And this kind of launches me

into the biggest question and concern

here, which is, okay, so you install

this and then you decide to give all of

your browser history and all of your

bookmarks to OpenAI just by importing

it. Hm. Sure, that can be useful in some

of the things, but just be aware that

that's what you're doing when you're

installing this, importing everything

over. And yes, it will open up some nice

opportunities, but you might not want to

share your entire browser history with

OpenAI. And this is kind of a sneaky way

of them getting it. So, just be aware of

that. What I could do now is something

like I did in a previous chat here and

ask something like find movies and shows

I recently viewed. Scan my recent

browsing and surface movies and shows I

viewed or searched for recently and then

use my browser history as context to

correctly identify that yeah I checked

out trailers for the bear pantheon the

Gothic one remake game trailer. That's a

good one. And then make suggestions for

what I should view next which actually

I've seen half of these. So this is

quite good yet again none of this is

really novel. We've seen this from other

AI browsers and from Google themselves

where you could use your Google Chrome

history as context in the chat. And you

might see the theme here already. It's

sort of pulling these various things

together. And that brings me to the next

big point which is the agent mode in

here. And this is the one where we'll

start getting practical. And I want to

actually start by running a rather

complicated prompt for the agent mode to

execute. It's going to be one that

includes three different applications.

Before I run this, I just want to

quickly intro agent mode. It's basically

their version of what would be called a

computer use agent, an AI that has

access to a computer, to a browser, and

then it does things, clicks buttons,

gets things done. Usually, they take the

same demo of like booking travel, which

is not a real painoint people have. I

don't understand why they always use

that as a demo, but that's what this is.

It's basically agent mode that you

already had in chat just within here.

Now, it has all of the context, the

history, maybe even the passwords that

you have in your browser if you store

them in there, which is just a more

user-friendly way to use this. But

basically, it's the same agent mode.

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this works any better in this desktop

version by trying out this test prompt.

We're in step one, we're going to be

reading in context from this document. I

just copied a guide from our community

over. This will be the context. The

content here doesn't really matter. I

just wanted to read it from that Google

doc. Then I want to write an email with

a summary of what the document includes

that will be using my Gmail account that

I'm logged into here. And then thirdly,

I want to track all the emails that have

been sent in this spreadsheet that is

open over here. It's completely empty.

And at this point, I'll just make sure

agent mode is enabled and that I'm

actually logged in with all the accounts

that I have. Otherwise, these things

wouldn't work. Okay, send this. And now

let me tell you how this actually worked

in the main competitor to this product

which is Claude's Chrome extension. If

we just briefly pull up my other

browser, it's right here installed. And

I actually keep using this thing ever

since its release. And it's so damn

good. It's better than all the

competition. I know the top comment on

the video when I made a video on that

Chrome extension was, "Hey, what about

comment?" Well, comet is good. It's the

same concept as Atlas here, right? But

it just doesn't work as reliably. And

that's a big word in this discussion

here. Reliability. Is this thing

reliable? Because of course the idea of

an agent that just controls your browser

and does the work for you is great. But

if you run a task 10 times and three

times out of that it does something

completely random, you're not going to

end up using it cuz it's going to cause

more work than it actually removes. And

that brings me to the last part of this

video, which is the various examples

that I tested in here and how they

contrast to some of the competing

products as of the features. And I

pointed out to you what it does and what

competing products exist that do this

already. Sure, this ties it all into one

package, which is kind of nice. But then

at the end of the day, if I want to get

something done like the task we just

launched, it's a real question if I

should be using this cloud's browser

extension, which has the same agentic

capabilities, or something like Google's

computer use model that they just

released two weeks ago that has beat all

the benchmarks. And let me just tell you

on these agentic tasks, I find claude to

be straight up better. And I don't think

that's because the extension has some

genius architecture running in the

background or that chatbt atlas is just

not good enough. I think it's because of

the model. Brief reminder that OpenAI

did not ship a new model here. They

shipped a new interface that contains

and uses the model they already had. And

I'm really curious to see how this task

actually performs because in the case of

Claude that uses the Sonnet 4.5 model

where one of the big headline benchmarks

and announcement was that it's so much

better at computer use. It was so smart

at doing this. If you saw that original

video, you might remember that it

actually did this task. It sent the

email and at this step right here where

I'm at right now, by the way, the

computer is doing this, not me, right?

It put in the summary of the email. It

put in all the data correctly, but it

was lacking a header. And then it

actually went back and saw that there's

no header and it deleted it, added the

head header, and then moved everything

down. Here in this case, it seemed to

have got this right on the first try.

So, that is nice. And that's actually

it. It just finished up the task. So,

let's see. It created the draft of the

email. It's right here. And it saved the

data that I asked for in here. And I

remember this prompt actually just asks

for the date and the email and not the

content of the email. So it did what I

told it correctly. But if it does this,

it could easily also add the content

over here that it wrote here. So on this

task, it did equally as well as clot.

Nice. Let me give you a few more

examples that I ran before making this

video on which it wasn't equal. And that

should give you enough of a feeling for

how this works. And that should round

out the video and give you enough

information to make a decision for

yourself if you want to give this a shot

yourself on your own machine. So, first

of all, I just gave it a picture of

Conor McGregor that was randomly on my

desktop. I think for AI news you can

use. I was doing some AI remix of it or

whatever. And I asked it to generate a

100 social media captions using Claude

AI for this image and put them into this

Google sheet. So, what I found is that

it actually did that, but it didn't use

Claude in the process. So, it just

opened up the sheet and it successfully

put them in here. And look at these

captions. They always like repeat four

times, three times, just emojis or the

hashtag varies. And it's good. You know,

they're solid captions. Then I followed

up and said, "Do 100 more by using

Claude AI." And then I provided the URL.

And this would be my tip. If you're

using this, give it the URLs and then it

will reliably use the tools. What it did

then is it opened up Claude, which I was

logged into. It wrote this prompt right

here, which I thought it was funny that

it mentioned avoid mentioning the

fighter's name. That's obviously the

chat GP restrictions at work here. And

then it just wrote 100 captions here.

The formatting is a bit off. Doesn't

really matter. It copied all over that.

made one mistake where it just kind of

copy pasted everything into one field,

but then sort of it corrected itself and

split them apart and there you go,

another 100 captions from Claude. Quick

note that I cannot withhold. I mean,

look at how much more variety you get in

the Claude captions. This is why Claude

is so damn good for writing and why

people really prefer it in many cases.

You just see that right here. But we're

judging chat GPT agent in chat GPT Atlas

right here. It did this super well. So

you can automate the usage of various

AIs and the manipulation of data with

spreadsheets, which I think is one of

the main things you will want to do with

tools like these, these computer use

agents. It's like using AIS, researching

stuff and manipulating spreadsheets, and

that's what it's really good at. This

worked well, but my tip would be be very

specific with the URLs of the tools and

something like the Claude Chrome

extension. It just pulled this up

without the URL here. It needs it. Not a

big deal. Then I did one more and this

is a tricky one. We had our quarterly

town hall in the community yesterday and

at the end of it we just got together

and tried this all together and we had

multiple AI educators and university

professors in the room and they brought

up one topic and that is that these

tools basically render things like

LinkedIn learning certifications useless

because the agent can just go through

it, take all the quizzes, watch all the

videos, pretend like somebody's taking

the course and just farm certifications

for you. So we put this to the test. We

actually made it take one of the quizzes

in our community concretely the final

quiz on the advanced LLM prompting

course and the results were very

interesting because I gave the same

question to both the claude chrome

extension and to chatpt atlas here and I

told it complete this quiz think

thoroughly I really need 100% at all

cost and here's what happened chatbt

took about 30 minutes and it still

wasn't done its method of getting all

the questions was basically scrolling

through all of this multiple times

compiling the screenshots and then very

slowly answering these questions. Claude

did the same, but it must have been like

10 or 15 times faster than Chat GBT here

at doing it. And both of them got 95%.

And at this point, I have to actually

admit my fault. I'm taking full

responsibility for this. There was a

mistake in one of the quizzes and that's

the one question both of them got wrong.

This question that is taught in the

course, both AIs actually answered

correctly, but we in our system had a

wrong answer selected. So, long story

short, basically both of the systems got

a perfect 23 out of 23, but there was a

mistake on our sides, which really

tripped GT5 up. Kept running in loops

after it was done and just couldn't

finish the task because I asked for 100%

and Claude was just like, "Hey, I did it

and this seems right to me." But even

without those loops, Claude was around

10 times faster at actually completing

the quiz the first time. So, yeah, that

should make you think about all types of

certifications that people show off on

their LinkedIn. All you need is a free

chat account in the Atlas to kind of do

that. and it's a real mess for

e-learning. So overall, what's the

verdict here? Well, it's just OpenAI's

version of something that we already

had. If I had to pick one winner, which

one of these computer use agents works

the best? Well, it would still be the

cloth browser extension with Sonnet 4.5.

That model is just the fastest and the

most reliable at all of these tasks that

I have tried so far. GBT5, this would be

a close second though, and maybe this

browser interface is actually preferable

to you. I know a lot of people used

Atlas before and really enjoyed that.

But I personally think that a lot of

these features like, you know,

summarizing a website with like one

click are a nice to have, but they're

rather niche. It's not something you're

going to be using on every site that

you're on. And honestly, even if I had

to copy this over to a new tab and

summarize it here, it's not big enough

of a pain point to change my personal

behavior and approach to browsers. And

above all, there's a real privacy

concern where you're sharing all of your

browsing data with OpenAI if you use

this and even if you import your Chrome

profile. So think about that before you

try this. And lastly, I want to point

out that this is just OpenAI's version

of the open-source Chromium, which

Google Chrome is based on. So it's

nearly identical to Chrome, but it's set

up to be AI first with interesting

features that will evolve over time like

browser memories and also you can do

custom instructions for your agent mode

here. Although I personally cannot edit

these right now. So I think this is the

first version that for the curious is

worth exploring, but I expect this to

get a whole lot better and featurerich

over time. And I also expect them to do

particular models that are really good

at these type of tasks. Interesting

release, not a game changer. All right,

that's pretty much everything I have for

today. My name is Igor and I hope you

have a wonderful