The company is reportedly aiming to vacuum up more data from its users.

OpenAI is said to be almost ready to unleash its own web browser, which could be out in the wild within weeks. According to Reuters sources, the company is aiming to more deeply integrate its services into users’ work and personal lives, and the browser is part of that strategy (as is its push into hardware). Naturally, the browser is slated to have a ChatGPT-style chatbot baked in.

OpenAI is reportedly looking to use the browser to capture more user data — a strategy that has worked out to Google's benefit with Chrome. The browser is also expected to have agentic AI features such as Operator, which are billed as tools that can carry out actions (such as booking reservations) on a user’s behalf. Having direct access to information like web browsing data may make it easier for OpenAI to pull that off.

The browser is said to be designed to keep many interactions within an AI chatbot interface rather than directing users to websites. As with Google’s AI Overviews, this could dissuade people from clicking through to the sources of information that the likes of ChatGPT rely on, potentially depriving website operators of valuable traffic.

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by Kris Holt

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