By skyforbes 
I have been playing with ChatGPT Atlas for about few hours now, enough to get a feel for what it wants to be. The short version is simple. Atlas feels clean and focused, closer to Dia’s minimal take on an AI browser, and quite different from Perplexity’s Comet, which puts a lot of controls in your face. If you prefer fewer buttons and a calmer canvas, you will feel at home immediately.
The interface keeps things restrained. Where Comet stacks in voice dictation, voice mode, page summary, and an assistant button, Atlas mostly shows two things: a chat history sidebar, which is basically the ChatGPT sidebar which you find in ChatGPT.com, and an Ask ChatGPT button. That restraint is nice for everyday browsing, though it also reveals what is not here yet.
The Ask ChatGPT sidebar feels basic in its current form. It did not surface suggestions that matched the page I was on. For example, I was on IMDb looking at Inception, but the sidebar suggestions stayed generic. It also did not autocomplete while I typed, which breaks the expected flow when you are moving quickly between pages and prompts.
Cross-tab context is another missing piece. There is no option to attach or reference other tabs inside a single chat thread. Both Dia and Comet let you pull information from…