Seems they just want your personal browsing history for training, and built this Chromium reskin to get around privacy controls.
> "OpenAI decided to build its own browser, rather than simply a "plug-in" on top of another company's browser, in order to have more control over the data it can collect, one source said."
Why not just release this as an extension? And make it work with Firefox as well. This seems why browser extensions exist at all. No need to pretend that perplexity or openai is actually going to do any work at all on the rest of the browser. And it seems overkill to release your own browser just to white label it.
> The browser’s access to a user’s web activity would make it the ideal platform for AI “agents” that can take actions on their behalf, like booking reservations or filling out forms, directly within the websites they use.
How about agents canceling services I no longer want? Or agents figuring out what choices I have to make to get my return picked up rather than have to take it to a drop off or pay?
There was the open web, with lots of rich api's... All of that got killed for the sake of profit and market consolidation. Are those same players going to be tolerant of agents cutting into their bottom line, of agents that cant be upsold, that dont misclick?
IF we ever get a solid agenic tooling I suspect that it will be murdered in its crib by industry.
At first I thought this was funny, but truthfully I don't love my browser. Brave and Firefox are both mildly annoying in different ways.
I'll probably give it a spin when they release it. It's just a Chromium fork and they can afford to make it good, if the AI integration is subtle and actually useful and there are robust controls on how my data is used (and it supports high quality adblock), I could see myself using it regularly.
Why do these idiot companies keep tackling real technical challenges that they don't want.
Open AI doesn't want to own and maintain a browser for the next 20 years! They'll give up in like two years when they realize it's actually quite hard and they have no particular committment to it
We're on a Google and OpenAI collision timeline. Google has to win to stay relevant, while OpenAI has to win to survive.
Looking at my own usage patterns, Google's ad business should have be long gone now, but then again I've been running adblockers since forever so maybe I just don't understand the dynamics here. Google has to recapture the perceived (or actual) lead in the AI market before its made obsolete and OpenAI has to keep Google on the defense otherwise it will just be commoditized away (I think this is more about good old market share here and no one waits around for AGI to unlock a spectacular economic value, they want each other's money now).
This is the second step in just a month or so where OpenAI directly encroaches on Google territory (first was with the recruitment of Johnny Ive to sidestep established mobile platforms and now going straight for Google's jugular).
It would be really interesting once OpenAI gets into the ad business, because right now Google has its share of ad revenue on hard allocation, and once in-stream AI advertising opens up it would surely divert some of that money.
This would make giving them all my data so much easier for them. That is the endgame, right? OpenAI becomes the advertiser of record using the best, richest, most targeted data ever. And we gave it all to them. “Dumb Fucks” -Zuck
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 41.1 ms ] thread> "OpenAI decided to build its own browser, rather than simply a "plug-in" on top of another company's browser, in order to have more control over the data it can collect, one source said."
https://www.diabrowser.com/
How about agents canceling services I no longer want? Or agents figuring out what choices I have to make to get my return picked up rather than have to take it to a drop off or pay?
There was the open web, with lots of rich api's... All of that got killed for the sake of profit and market consolidation. Are those same players going to be tolerant of agents cutting into their bottom line, of agents that cant be upsold, that dont misclick?
IF we ever get a solid agenic tooling I suspect that it will be murdered in its crib by industry.
I'll probably give it a spin when they release it. It's just a Chromium fork and they can afford to make it good, if the AI integration is subtle and actually useful and there are robust controls on how my data is used (and it supports high quality adblock), I could see myself using it regularly.
Open AI doesn't want to own and maintain a browser for the next 20 years! They'll give up in like two years when they realize it's actually quite hard and they have no particular committment to it
Looking at my own usage patterns, Google's ad business should have be long gone now, but then again I've been running adblockers since forever so maybe I just don't understand the dynamics here. Google has to recapture the perceived (or actual) lead in the AI market before its made obsolete and OpenAI has to keep Google on the defense otherwise it will just be commoditized away (I think this is more about good old market share here and no one waits around for AGI to unlock a spectacular economic value, they want each other's money now).
This is the second step in just a month or so where OpenAI directly encroaches on Google territory (first was with the recruitment of Johnny Ive to sidestep established mobile platforms and now going straight for Google's jugular).
It would be really interesting once OpenAI gets into the ad business, because right now Google has its share of ad revenue on hard allocation, and once in-stream AI advertising opens up it would surely divert some of that money.