OpenAI recently launched its first agentic AI browser, Atlas. Soon after, Google’s shares fell sharply and it was reported that it had suffered a loss of $150 billion. But the real story is not just about the browser, it goes much beyond that. OpenAI is poised to capture a market that doesn’t yet exist. Agentic AI is still in its early stages, but Sam Altman predicts that it will take over the field in the next few years and Google may again lag behind. When ChatGPT was launched about four years ago, we told you how this company would compete with Google and break its monopoly. Now, this is more or less what has happened. Google search is continuously declining and the company is incurring huge losses. People’s dependence on Google has reduced.
Agentic AI – Computers do everything themselves
The Atlas browser offers all the features of Google Chrome, but also includes an assistant that automatically performs tasks on your command. This browser will undoubtedly compete with Google Chrome. The day after Atlas’ launch, OpenAI announced that it had acquired the team behind Apple Shortcuts. The team that created Apple’s flagship automation app, Shortcuts, is now owned by OpenAI. This team initially created Workflow, after which Apple acquired them and entrusted them with creating shortcut automation.
Sky Team is deeply integrating automation into MacBooks
The Apple team that created the shortcut had already left Apple. This team was running Sky AI. The team at Sky was working on an AI-powered natural language interface. This interface, also for Apple’s Mac computers, acts as an agent on the desktop, allowing users to perform tasks ranging from coding to planning. Just as tools like ChatGPT work on the web, Sky works natively on a MacBook, completing tasks automatically without user intervention. For example, you can make your MacBook do any task through Sky.
a computer that works on its own
It’s all about automation. As of now, you operate the computer, but in the future, the computer will do everything on its own; You just have to give him the command. Is the computing model really going to change? For three decades, our relationship with computers has remained the same: We click, we type, and the system responds. Open AI is trying to overturn this system. A human simply tells us what they need, and the system takes care of everything. This change is as much practical as it is technical, as time, attention and navigation fatigue have become a problem in the digital world.
ATLAS and SKY will work together
The ATLAS browser has already launched, and now the SKY team, which includes 12 former Apple employees, is also on board with OpenAI. OpenAI acquired SKY to make tools like ChatGPT more than just chatbots, but your computer can act as an agent. OpenAI’s goal is to integrate AI deeply into your operating system, apps, browser, and files, so you can ask for a task and AI can get it done. Experts in automation, the Sky team is now working with OpenAI to develop next generation computing models.
Why does Google seem to be lagging behind in the race of OpenAI?
Google had lagged behind in the AI race for some time, but is now moving forward rapidly. However, it still seems that Google is constantly competing with other AI companies, one of the prominent names of which is Perplexity. Recently Perplexity launched the Comet Agentic browser, and soon after Google added an Assistant to the Chrome browser. Now, OpenAI’s Atlas is out, and Google Chrome will be the biggest loser. Because Microsoft has also launched an agentic AI browser which will directly compete with Google.
Microsoft has also invested heavily in Open AI, so all this development could become a problem for Google. So if you think that no one can break Google’s monopoly, then you are wrong. Many tech companies are already breaking Google’s monopoly. Until two years ago, no one thought that Google Search could be inefficient. But now everything has changed, and Google search traffic is falling every day. Now it will be interesting to see what big steps Google takes to get ahead of others in the race of agentic AI.