OpenAI has abandoned its AI browser experiment, and is moving its features into ChatGPT and Codex.
OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser, Atlas, less than a year after launching.
The AI company announced it was sunsetting the standalone Atlas browser and transferring the AI and agentic browsing features into the ChatGPT desktop app and a Google Chrome extension.
The browser was introduced in October of 2025, and looked to rival Google Chrome as the go-to for browsing – a challenge that many AI companies have taken on, like Perplexity with the launch of Comet.
The browsing platform will stop working on 9 August, giving it a total run time of roughly 10 months, before being moved into the new ChatGPT desktop app.
Many of its tools will be brought into ChatGPT Work – which combines Atlas, ChatGPT, and Codex into one unified platform that can browse the web, generate spreadsheets, documents, and presentations – as well as answering prompts.
OpenAI’s former applications chief executive, Fidji Simo, told her team the “do everything all at once” strategy had put them on the defensive, and they were in danger of missing the moment because they are “distracted by side quests,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
“We really have to nail productivity in general and particularly productivity on the business front,” she told her team.
In April OpenAI discontinued Sora – its AI video generation app and web experiences – will be discontinuing Sora API from September. While Sora briefly held top spot in Apple’s App Store, it eventually plateaued in popularity and was sunsetted after just a few months.
Instead, OpenAI is pushing focus toward higher-priority enterprise developments and reasoning models, and will integrate video-generation features into its main ChatGPT app instead.
From an outside perspective, it appears that a fatigue with the number of AI agents, browsers, content generation tools, and features is catching up with OpenAI – and the company is stretching itself too thin across a range of different projects.
Going forward, it looks likely that the AI giant will focus on building new features into ChatGPT rather than standalone applications.
