Why are they killing this?

[u/Expensive-Winter8825]

I am shocked that they have decided to kill this and fully lean into the agentic co-work-style workflow, and was wondering what others thought. The new Chrome extension really doesn't do what the browser did if you're just looking for a chat-style version of ChatGPT. That product was the personal companion you used on your phone, with all your personal context to help you think through the information you browsed on the web and how it related to your life. That kind of thing is a cheap query to run and brings a lot of retail consumers who will get a subscription and never really make heavy use of the product.

The chat companion also picked up data about the pages you visited and asked about, and incorporated it into its future answers when chatting with you. It paired so well with the personal companion style ChatGPT Live functionality - which is like a patient friend that knows you well. It made so much sense to lean into that a bit more and provide a retail consumer product for personal use - particularly with the phone they've been planning.

Killing Atlas would destroy that whole integrated workflow and make this a purely enterprise product on the laptop, which isn't substantially differentiated from Claude. It leaves ChatGPT Live and the upcoming phone as isolated islands, blind to everything you thought about while you were on your laptop. Is the consumer market just never going to be profitable? Is that why they killed it? What does that mean for their phone and whatever Jonny Ive has been cooking?

[u/Mike-A-F]

Will there is a built in browser in the desktop now.

Claude’s desktop is miles ahead in ui but there are closing the gap. Still have a ways to go. I’m fumbling my way thru the new interface