A few hours after the official launch of Perplexity With its new Comet browser Openai could well bring this announcement to oblivion with a new rumor …
While Openai had already declared war on Google by launching in the world of research With Searchgpt in August 2024, Sam Altman’s company could go even further by launching a direct competitor to Google Chrome, the Google browser.
And if Openai had also positioned himself to buy Google Chrome For $ 15 billion last April as part of the antitrust trial, another strategy could have been adopted …
A launch of the Openai browser this summer & nbsp?
If only rumors are for the moment, this could well have the effect of a bomb in the digital field … Indeed, according to the Reuters information in an article published last night, Openai would be secretly developing a browser for openly compete with Google Chrome.
Although no launch date has been announced by the news agency, Reuters says that three sources have indicated an outing ” in the coming weeks“, Without specifying if Openai aims at the end of the summer or the beginning of fall.
If the news is confirmed, Openai could also restrict access to this new navigator, as Perplexity is currently doing With its new Comet browser For subscribers to its Perplexity Max offer.
Towards a new navigation experience for Internet users & NBSP?
According to the information present in the Reuters press release, the future Openai browser could be based on Operator OpenAi’s IA agent launched last January.
Concretely, this would allow Openai to couple the Chatgpt conversational mode with its Research features without systematically return users to websites.
For some press sites that have already lost traffic following the arrival of artificial intelligence, This loss could increase in the coming months according to the use of the browser.
Even if solutions like the “pay per crawl” of cloudflare are clearer, the platform only represents 16% of traffic in the world.
Direct access to user data for Openai
As we could imagine, with such a project, Openai would not just come to compete with other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox.
According to information from Reuters, Openai could take advantage of this opportunity for Harvest user data who have made Google’s success in recent years.
