Browser Wars 2.0. Privacy Goes Completely Out The Window
The LLM companies are rolling out their own Web browsers in an effort to capture user data, create personalized AI chat/browser experiences, and of course to position themselves to introduce Ads to the chat. Without Ads, how will the LLM companies ever achieve profitability? OpenAI’s browser - Atlas - is the latest LLM browser entrant. Atlas was introduced today.
Recently we saw Perplexity introduce its proprietary browser - Comet - as well as offer $34.5 Billion to acquire Google Chrome.
Anthropic has yet to introduce its own browser, but on Monday the company made Claude Code available for the Web via Chrome.
Today OpenAI rolled out its proprietary Web browser - Atlas. You may learn more about Atlas HERE. Atlas was the big OpenAI news of the day.
The smaller piece of OpenAI news is that the company has hired more than 100 former investment bankers to help train OpenAI’s models on financial data. As I said back in 2022, Bloomberg and the banks could have layered opensource NLP models on top of their respective data sets to create new features and products that leverage natural language. 10 years from now there will be armies of small language models (SLMs) that have been trained on industry specific data sets. These models will have deep vertical expertise. See our article “Rise of the SLMs” (HERE).
Google has done a fine job of integrating Gemini into its Chrome browser. Expect Google to introduce further integrations when it rolls out Gemini 3.0 in December. I expect the combined Google Search, Gemini LLM Chrome browser to win this version of the Browser Wars.
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