As part of a slew of ChatGPT Work-related announcements on Thursday, OpenAI confirmed plans to "sunset" Atlas, with deprecation scheduled for August 9.
Article Link: OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser Is Shutting Down
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser Is Shutting Down
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As part of a slew of ChatGPT Work-related announcements on Thursday, OpenAI confirmed plans to "sunset" Atlas, with deprecation scheduled for August 9.
Article Link: OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Browser Is Shutting Down
iMac The Knife
macrumors 65816
"What if you could chat with your web browser?" My answer to this question would be, even if I could, I wouldn't.
EM2013
macrumors 68030
Hopefully the first domino that falls for the ai collapse 🙂
OpenAI seems willing to try things and then shut them down if they don't work or fit in the direction they want to grow. I think of Sora 2. People were scrambling for codes to get access. OpenAI recently shut it down. I applaud them for trying things and not being afraid to scrap it if there is no value to it. There are times when "chatting" with your browser might be a good thing, I think of Amazon, they have their AI assistant you can ask questions about the product. If there was an AI on every page and you could ask questions it might be able to find answers outside the webpage itself. Obviously there was not a lot of demand for it so away it goes.
Pangalactic
macrumors 6502a
Absolutely a good call.
Say what you want, but moving away from Sora and Atlas into Codex and improving ChatGPT was a very smart business decision. Sometimes things just don’t work and you have to drop them.
Say what you want, but moving away from Sora and Atlas into Codex and improving ChatGPT was a very smart business decision. Sometimes things just don’t work and you have to drop them.
This will help streamline products. It's usually better to have one main application rather than several that are basically doing the same thing, especially when one of those (Atlas) was rushed out without any clear long-term plan.
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con2apple
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The first domino was Altman's idea to make a pornographic agent possible.
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Canubis
macrumors 6502
You can basically use the new ChatGPT app (which was merged with Codex), which has a built in browser and can probably do most what Atlas could. Codex and now ChatGPT can also work with Chrome.
deaglecat
macrumors 6502a
OpenAI is increasingly looking like the weakest of the AI giants.
No longer Apple's main partner (Google has that honor), SORA gone, OpenAI likely delayed IPO (Space X beat them to it), ChatGPT falling behind Claude, Gemini has a route to market with Google's installed base.
Honestly, if the AI bubble bursts, it wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI and their $300b deal with ORACLE are the fracture point.
No longer Apple's main partner (Google has that honor), SORA gone, OpenAI likely delayed IPO (Space X beat them to it), ChatGPT falling behind Claude, Gemini has a route to market with Google's installed base.
Honestly, if the AI bubble bursts, it wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI and their $300b deal with ORACLE are the fracture point.
My answer would be, "dude seriously, how many of those pot brownies did you eat?"
ai collapse? what does that even look like to you? startups without gpus die, and then suddenly the industry collectively agrees to shut down gpu data centers for llm services, and we all go back to humans typing and clicking to generate computer-actionable symbols and actions?
this has barely even started. 2027 is gonna be smartphone year all over again. a spacex ai slab. an openai android slab. one thing is wishing for ram prices to come down, but ai collapse? not gonna happen.
at least we'll probably see fewer ****** gadgets getting released. or maybe not even that, the nothing phone is actually pretty cool. and sure, tesla software on a phone? good luck with that. but sadly that's where the flow is going. sora got shut down because those gpus were better spent elsewhere. atlas was a fair try, but browsing isn't it.
i'm more concerned about when full duplex gets solved. that's when the real revolution starts. not gpt-live-1. maybe by the third iteration. that's the one. the one that actually gets us all.
The thing is, OpenAI and the others have been writing checks they really don't want to cash, on money they don't really have, to pay nvidia, who is also borrowing money, and all of this is riding on incredibly high valuations nobody can really explain except to say "trust me bro."
It's a race against time before all these loans come due. The collapse will be economic, not literally the AI itself. Well, some of them will.
these aren’t all loans, and the checks aren’t backed by nothing. there’s real revenue, real usage, real infrastructure, and a tool with an absurdly large economic surface area. after spending long enough in this industry, one thing becomes really obvious, once a tool shows THIS much potential, not reinvesting EVERY dollar you earn, and EVERY dollar you can raise, would be the stupid move.
that doesn’t mean every valuation is sane or that every company survives. a crash could absolutely kill startups, crush valuations, make stocks wildly volatile, and strand some data-center capacity. on my side, i worry a lot about 2023-era and older gpu data centers, for instance... but that’s not the same thing as everyone abandoning llms and going back to before ai, because that is just not possible, have you seen the revenues of anthropic and openai? money coming in! in! IT IS HUGE, not as huge as what they’re spending, sure, because THAT is the bet, that’s how silicon valley has always worked, just at a MASSIVE scale this time. spotify was founded in 2006 and only achieved its first full profitable year in 2024. nearly two decades of burning money before they finally turned green.
openai, anthropic, and the rest are silicon valley opportunists, obviously. their bet isn’t merely that ai will become profitable. their bet is that we’ll become so deeply dependent on the systems they’re building that, by the time the market settles and the excess gets flushed out, they’ll own the layer everything else runs through. a bubble can burst. the weaker companies (like my own startups) can and will die. valuations can collapse. none of that puts the genie back in the bottle. it just decides who owns the bottle
Smith288
macrumors 65816
AI has it's place. And in this early stage, new tech is supposed to be tested across the various applicable modals. They tested the idea, it wasnt well received, moving on.
AI is fantastic for so many things and we are drilling down into what those things are as companies pioneer them.
AI generated videos, music, pictures doesnt appear to be wanted. But asking it to proofread, edit, assist in coding, agentic work... ALL are revolutionary and totally worth it.
Just because you think it's stupid doesnt mean the technology doesnt have a place.
ClaraStahlbaum
macrumors 6502a
I think AI is in the Wild West phase. All sorts of things are being thrown at AI but there is not one main thing that everyone is going to adopt and start using.... yet. Think of the variety of "smart" phones there were before Apple came in with the iPhone and created what we have today that spans across all smart phones, be it iOS or Android or anything else. They virtually work the same, pinch and zoom, etc. Everyone has a phone now, it is pretty much universal. I think there is going to be that moment with AI where something will come out that changes everything.
Smith288
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Im finding MacRumors is chock full of consumers with little to zero innovative understanding.
Black/white people who think only what they were told to think without any shread of research themselves or experiencing the possibilities of new technology. Very little grey matter people who apply logic or reason to a topic like AI.
It's "it's takin' er jerbs!" but statistics have shown no real movement in the job market outside of the tech sector that are now reversing course.
Scared people who have no ability to adjust to the new lay of the land.
Black/white people who think only what they were told to think without any shread of research themselves or experiencing the possibilities of new technology. Very little grey matter people who apply logic or reason to a topic like AI.
It's "it's takin' er jerbs!" but statistics have shown no real movement in the job market outside of the tech sector that are now reversing course.
Scared people who have no ability to adjust to the new lay of the land.