OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled its own web browser Atlas its ChatGPT creator’s direct entry to compete with Google. By putting ChatGPT as a gateway to web searches OpenAI wants to attract greater internet traffic and tap into the digital advertising market. The move may also generate concerns among online publishers as ChatGPT’s ability to deliver AI-generated summaries may discourage users from visiting traditional websites and clicking through links. OpenAI Launches Atlas Browser OpenAI has said ChatGPT already has more than 800 million users but many of them get it for free. The company also sells paid subscriptions but is losing more money than it makes and has been looking for ways to turn a profit. OpenAI said Atlas launches Tuesday on Apple laptops and will later come to Microsofts Windows Apples iOS phone operating system and Googles Android phone system. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it a “rare once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about and how to use one.” OpenAIs Browser VS Googles Chrome  OpenAIs browser will face a challenge against Chrome which has about 3 billion worldwide users and has been adding some AI features from Googles Gemini technology. Chromes success could provide a blueprint for OpenAI as it enters the browser market. When Google released Chrome in 2008 Microsofts Internet Explorer was so dominant that few observers believed a new browser could give a big threat. But Chrome quickly won over legions of admirers by loading webpages more quickly than Internet Explorer while offering other advantages that enabled it to upend the market. Microsoft ended up abandoning Explorer and introducing its Edge browser which operates similarly to Chrome and holds a distant third place in market share behind Apples Safari. Perplexity another smaller AI startup rolled out its own Comet browser earlier this year. It also expressed interest in buying Chrome and eventually submitted an unsolicited USD 34.5 billion offer for the browser that hit a dead end when Mehta decided against a Google breakup. Altman said he expects a chatbot interface to replace a traditional browsers URL bar as the centre of how he hopes people will use the internet in the future. “Tabs were great but we havent seen a lot of browser innovation since then” he said on a video presentation aired on Tuesday. (With Inputs From AP)