As you may have heard, the latest AI-powered web browser launched yesterday, the much-anticipated OpenAI ChatGPT web browser. OpenAI named its web browser Atlas. The built-in search features seem to be mostly powered by Google Search, for some reason.
It is only available for Mac - you can download it at chatgpt.com/atlas.
Here are screenshots of the web search features, notice the Google link at the top right section (hat tip to Pedro Dias on X):
The other features include:
- ChatGPT sidebar
- ChatGPT memory
- Agentic features to shop, do tasks, etc
- ChatGPT cursor for help as you type
- ChatGPT to summarize your tab
- and much more
Here is a video from OpenAI on Atlas:
And if you are curious, the ChatGPT Atlas useragent is Chrome 141:
— Hanns Kronenberg (@HannsKronenberg) October 21, 2025
Jean-Christophe Chouinard posted on LinkedIn that what shows up in the logs for Atlas visits is a Googlebot visit. That seems super bad to me, if this is really happening:
There is a lot, I mean, a lot, of coverage of this summed up on Techmeme.
Forum discussion at X.
