By skyforbes 
Yet another AI browser enters the ring. We all knew it was coming. After DIA promised to rethink creativity and Perplexity Comet tried to reinvent research, it was only a matter of time before OpenAI decided to build a browser of its own. And now it’s here, ChatGPT Atlas. Arguably the most anticipated one so far.
But excitement isn’t the same as progress. If you’ve read my reviews of Dia by The Browser Company and Perplexity Comet, you already know where this category keeps crashing: not in vision, but in execution. These browsers love to open with cinematic onboarding flows floating windows, futuristic language, over the top UI animations all under the facade of “agentic AI” promising to browse the internet for you. And then, within an hour, you realize you’re still dragging a mouse across a slightly laggier version of Chrome, asking a sidebar chatbot to do things you could’ve done faster yourself.
The core problem hasn’t changed: if I have to manually prompt the “agent” to act, it’s not an agent. It’s a well-branded shortcut bar.
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