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October 21, 2025 — OpenAI has officially unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser designed with ChatGPT at its core. The launch marks a significant step toward blending web browsing with AI assistance, creating what OpenAI calls a “true super-assistant that understands your world and helps you achieve your goals.”

ChatGPT Built into the Browser

ChatGPT Atlas is built around the idea that browsing should be intelligent, contextual, and frictionless. Unlike traditional browsers, Atlas integrates ChatGPT directly into the browsing experience — allowing users to ask questions, automate tasks, and complete workflows without switching tabs or copying and pasting.

Atlas users can access ChatGPT anywhere on the web, with the assistant able to interpret on-screen content, help complete forms, research topics, summarize pages, or even execute actions directly in the browser.

“Your browser is where all your work, tools, and context come together,” OpenAI said in the announcement. “With Atlas, ChatGPT comes with you anywhere across the web—helping you right where you are.”

Smarter Context and Memory

Atlas introduces browser memories, enabling ChatGPT to remember context from sites you visit and use that information later. For example, users can ask, “Find all the job postings I looked at last week and summarize industry trends for interviews.”

Memories are optional and fully user-controlled. Users can view, archive, or delete them at any time, and clearing browsing history automatically removes related memory data.

Agent Mode: AI That Takes Action

With agent mode, ChatGPT in Atlas can perform actions across websites. This includes tasks like planning events, booking appointments, compiling research, or automating everyday workflows — directly from the browser.

Agent mode, available in preview for Plus, Pro, and Business users, can open tabs, click buttons, and complete forms when authorized by the user. OpenAI says agent mode is now faster, more reliable, and better integrated with the browsing context.

To ensure safety, agent mode operates within strict limits:

• It cannot run arbitrary code or install extensions.

• It cannot access other local apps or files.

• It pauses before taking actions on sensitive sites, such as financial portals.

• Users can choose to run it in a logged-out mode for greater privacy and reduced data exposure.

Security and Privacy Controls

ChatGPT Atlas introduces clear visibility controls. Users can toggle ChatGPT’s page access directly from the address bar, deciding whether the assistant can “see” and interpret the current page.

By default, Atlas does not use web content to train OpenAI’s models unless users explicitly opt in. Parents can also apply parental controls, including disabling memories or agent mode entirely for supervised accounts.

Available Now on macOS

ChatGPT Atlas launches today for Free, Plus, Pro, and Go users on macOS, with a beta rollout for Business, and optional enablement for Enterprise and Edu customers.

Support for Windows, iOS, and Android will follow soon. Users can download Atlas and import bookmarks, saved passwords, and browsing history from their current browser at chatgpt.com/atlas.

A New Era of “Agentic” Browsing

OpenAI says the launch of Atlas represents an early step toward “agentic systems,” where browsers and AI agents collaborate to handle routine digital work.

Future updates will include multi-profile support, improved developer tools, and expanded Apps SDK integration, helping developers make their ChatGPT-based apps discoverable directly within Atlas.

“This launch marks a step toward a future where most web use happens through agentic systems—where you can delegate the routine and stay focused on what matters most,” OpenAI stated.