OpenAI has announced it is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas browser, released last October. The announcement came alongside several ChatGPT Work-related announcements on Thursday, OpenAI confirmed its plans to “sunset” Atlas, with deprecation scheduled for August 9.
Lastly, with all these updates, we are going to be sunsetting Atlas.
All these capabilities were built on what we learned from Atlas users who took a leap of faith on a new browser.
You taught us how agents can help make browsing and doing work on the open web better, and we are applying these learnings to these new products.
The current targeted date for deprecation is 8/9, and we’ll share more information in the upcoming days both in-app and via email.
Thank you all for your support and we hope you love these new features!
When it was released, OpenAI said the agentic browser was designed to answer the question “What if you could chat with your web browser?” The answer apparently proved to be “Nothing, nothing would happen.”
In Thursday’s announcement, OpenAI said it is introducing a more powerful ChatGPT desktop app, that combines the company’s Codex coding tool, a new built-in browser, and “ChatGPT Work,” which can perform actions across a user’s other apps and files.
“These capabilities build on what we learned from Atlas and from the users who helped us understand how agentic tools can make browser-based work more useful,” the company said.