OpenAI announced it will cease development of its AI browser, Atlas, on August 9th. The company is integrating some of the browser's features into its ChatGPT desktop application and Chrome extension. This comes less than a year after its planned launch in October 2025 for ChatGPT Atlas. This means OpenAI is abandoning its plan to offer an AI browser designed to challenge existing products like Chrome; meanwhile, other companies such as Perplexity (creator of Comet) and The Browser Company (creator of Dia) continue to compete in the AI browser market.