ChatGPT's new browser has potential, if you're willing to pay

As mentioned in yesterday's article, OpenAI has recently released its own search browser, called ‘Atlas’. This project is accompanied by an artificial intelligence agent, an integrated feature designed to perform tasks autonomously, which is a potentially useful addition but, unfortunately, subject to several security risks.

Unlike most search engines currently in use, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox, Atlas is based on the famous ChatGPT chatbot and, as a result, functions as such. To perform searches, you need to communicate with the chatbot, submitting requests via message. However, this method is subject to the errors and hallucinations typical of this kind of tool, as well as being very different from the ‘normal’ use we expect from a browser.

As yet another tool aimed at generating revenue, non-paying users are only entitled to reduced use of Atlas, encountering messages such as: “Message limit reached”, “No available model supports the tools in use”, “You have reached the free plan limit for GPT-5”. However, considering the large amount of data collected by the chatbot, perhaps a paid subscription would be redundant.