Rumor: ‘OpenAI is considering developing its own web browser’

OpenAI, the company behind artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, is thinking of creating a web browser of its own.

Allegedly, the San Francisco-based tech company would like to make ChatGPT directly available from the web browser.

Inside sources have told The Information that OpenAI has hired two developers from Google’s Chrome browser to work on it. Supposedly, development is in its infancy. No more details are provided, except that ChatGPT will be integrated into the browser.

That’s not the only interesting news The Information has come up with. According to the news outlet, OpenAI is in talks with several companies about collaboration, including travel site Priceline, publisher Condé Nast and ticket seller EventBrite.

Thanks to these partnerships, OpenAI would integrate an AI search tool into their websites, allowing users to search the site in a ‘natural’ way. This tool has been internally named NLWeb, or Natural Language Web, one of The Information’s sources claims. It remains unclear whether any agreements have been reached so far.

In addition, The Information states that OpenAI is also in talks with Samsung to add AI capabilities to its devices. Unfortunately, no further details are given. Therefore, it remains unclear what kind of devices and features are involved. OpenAI previously had a deal with Apple to use ChatGPT in various Apple Intelligence features.

Earlier this month, OpenAI announced SearchGPT, a search engine based on GPT-4 models. Instead of URLs, the search engine delivers web content that’s been summarized by the AI models, with source links included.

SearchGPT can also be used in Chrome, putting the company in competition with existing search engines such as Google Search, Microsoft Bing and DuckDuckGo. Google and Microsoft also have AI-generated search result summaries in their search engines.