OpenAI has its work cut out – Google Chrome, which is used by more than 3 billion people, currently holds more than two-thirds of the worldwide browser market, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Apple’s second-place Safari lags far behind with a 16 percent share. Last month, OpenAI said it had 3 million paying business users for ChatGPT.

OpenAI is working on an AI-powered web browser that could debut in the coming weeks, Reuters reported on Wednesday. That would be a major incursion by OpenAI, which makes the dominant AI chatbot, ChatGPT,

OpenAI is planning to launch an AI web browser in the “coming weeks,” according to a report from Reuters. Sources tell the outlet that OpenAI could build its Operator AI agent into the browser, allowing it to book reservations, fill out forms, and complete other tasks on a user’s behalf as it moves toward an “agentic” future.

If OpenAI does start offering users access to its own browser, it would be following Perplexity, which released a browser with agentic AI functions on Wednesday. That browser, Comet, is currently only available to those with a $200 per month Perplexity Max subscription. Opera also released a "fully agentic" browser back in May.

Is Google Chrome's reign coming to an end? Moments after Perplexity AI debuts its first browser, Reuters reports OpenAI is releasing one in a few weeks.

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.

A new investigation has revealed 245 browser extensions, installed on almost a million devices, have been leading a double life, as besides the operations they were designed for, they were also silently disabling key security protections in the browsers to enable paid web scraping operations.