Credit: OpenAI
TL;DR
- OpenAI’s browser team is rolling out three updates alongside today’s GPT 5.6 announcement.
- The company has decided to shut down ChatGPT Atlas due to these rollouts.
- Atlas will reach the end of the road on August 8, 2026.
It was only months ago that ChatGPT Atlas was the hot new AI web browser in town. After only nine months, it’s already time to start saying goodbye. OpenAI has decided to shut the project down.
Along with the announcement of GPT 5.6 today, the OpenAI browser team had a handful of updates to share. The first of those updates reveals that the new ChatGPT desktop app is getting a more robust in-app browser, with support for multiple tabs, a password manager, autofill, and more. Next up, Work mode will now have access to a browser in the cloud. And a side chat is rolling out to Chrome, bringing the power of ChatGPT and Codex to Google’s browser.
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