WEB WAR III

OpenAI didn’t plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. “You’d have this tab open on chatgpt.com, and you’d be working on something else somewhere in your browser,” says Adam Fry, a product lead on the ChatGPT team. “And people are doing this behavior where they’re copying and pasting back and forth with ChatGPT. Hey, here’s what I’m working on, can you help me with this?

Eventually OpenAI came to a realization, the same one that has swept through the tech industry over the last couple of years: Browsers are the secret to everything. Your we …

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